Children

• "Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?" — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth." — Kahlil Gibran
• "All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day." — Franklin P. Jones
• "Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist." — Michael Levine
• "The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults." — Peter De Vries
• "One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child." — Forest Witcraft
• "No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure." — Emma Goldman
• "Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again." — Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings, 1964
• "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." — Henry Ward Beecher
• "Her children arise up, and call her blessed." — Proverbs 31:28
• "Motherhood is a wonderful thing — what a pity to waste it on children." — Judith Pugh
• "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children." — William Makepeace Thackeray
• "Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream." — Roger Rosenblatt, The Man in the Water, 1994
• "Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children." — Oliver Wendell Holmes