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Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Every child is born a genius.

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released. -Robert Penn Warren.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. -Tom Savage.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

The child is father of the man.

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.