“So that we pursue the happiness of this world just as little Children chase birds, when we think we are come very near it and have it almost in our hands it flies farther from us than it was at first”
John Tillotson
“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
Robert Fulghum
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.”
Hodding Carter
“Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.”
Rosaleen Dickson
“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”