The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. (Spanish proverbMaturity: The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980Insight: The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980Aging: You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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.
The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.
The child is father of the man.
Come Mothers and fathers throughout the land. And don’t criticize what you can’t understand. Your sons and daughters are beyond your command.
When a newborn child squeezes for the first time with his tiny fist his father’s finger, he has him trapped forever.
The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity.
Parenting is a lifetime sentence.
What’s done to children, they will do to society.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, / Who loved thee so fondly as he? / He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, / And joined in thy innocent glee.
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when his son gives to his father, both cry.
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son.