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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. -Pearl S. Buck.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psalms 51:5].

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

The soul is healed by being with children.

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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.