"We worry about what a child will be tomorrow,
yet we often forget that they are someone today."
-Stacia Tauscher

"Before I got married I had six
theories about bringing up children;
now I have six children and no theories."
-John Wilmot

"You can learn many things from children.
How much patience you have, for instance."
-Franklin P. Jones

"Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters
of Life's longing for itself."
-Kahlil Gibran

"It takes a village to raise a child."
-African proverb

"We must teach our children
to dream with their eyes open."
-Harry Edwards

"Children are living jewels
dropped unsustained from heaven."
-Robert Pollok

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security does not exist in nature, nor do the
children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in
the long run than exposure."
-Helen Keller

"Children have never been very
good at listening to their elders,
but they have never failed to imitate them."
-James Baldwin

"There are only two lasting bequests
we can hope to give our children.
One is roots; the other, wings."
-Hodding Carter

"You can understand and relate to
most people better if you look at them . .
no matter how old or impressive they may be . .
as if they are children. For most of us
never really grow up or mature all that much . .
we simply grow taller.
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and
wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but
beneath the costume is the child we always are,
whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still
best described by fairy tales."
-Leo Rosten

"A three-year-old child is a being
who gets almost as much fun out of a
fifty-six dollar set of swings as it
does out of finding a small green worm."
-Bill Vaughn

"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."
-John Bradshaw

"Human beings are the only creatures
that allow their children to come back home."
-Bill Cosby