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Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.

An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time. Doc Childre, A Parenting Manual: Heart Hope for the Family -Doc Childre.

Children are poor men's riches.

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

I like trying [to get pregnant]. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: "Never hurt anybody.".

For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

It is a wise child that knows his own father.

things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

There is no sinner like a young saint.