Whoso hath left debt and children, let him come to me; I am their patron, I will discharge his debt and befriend his children.
Children Quotes
I was in the back yard, and my then-4-year-old brown-haired brown-eyed daughter came running down the hill and into my arms. I decided in that moment that one trillion brown-eyed little girls running down one trillion grassy hills throughout the galaxy would be an enhancement of the state of the universe, not a diminishment of […]
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.
Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in moods, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement mixer long after one’s interest in the topic has waned.
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that l could bring to it.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. . . There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
