Freedom is

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

~Ronald Reagan

If a kid asks

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

-Jack Handey

My mother loved children

"My mother loved children -
she would have given anything
if I had been one."

~ Groucho Marx

Mothers of teenagers

Mothers of teenagers know why animals eat their young.

- Author Unknown

I want my children

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."

- Phyllis Diller

Mama

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

~Zora Neale Hurston

The lullaby

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

~James Fenton

Insanity

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

~Sam Levenson

It kills you

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Before I got married

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

~John Wilmot

The moment

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

~Rajneesh

I have

I have the heart of a small boy ...
and I keep it in a drawer at home.

~Robert Bloch

Lead by example

"Lead by example and teach your kids right and wrong. If my right and wrong is a little bit different than anybody else, then my kids will be different too."

~Charlie Sheen

Children today

Children today are tyrants.
They contradict thier parents,
gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

~Socrates (Greek philosopher, 470-399 B.C.)

Myself

"The 'myself' which I am beginning to recognize,which I had forgotten but actually know better than anything else, goes far back beyond my childhood, beyond the time when adults confused me and tried to tell me that I was someone else; when, because they were bigger and stronger, they could terrify me with their imaginary fears and bewilder and outface me in the complicated game that I had not yet learned."

~Alan Watts

The power of unconditional love

The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on earth like unconditional love. And I think that if you offered that to your child, I mean you’re 90 percent of the way home. There may be days when you don’t feel like it, it’s not uncritical love, that’s a different animal, but to know you can always come back, that is huge in life. That takes you a long, long way. And I would say that every parent out there that can extend that to their child at an early age, it’s going to make for a better human being.

~Warren Buffett

My brother and I

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

~Kristin Hersh

Every child

Every child has known God
Not the God of names
Not the God of don’ts
Not the God who ever does anything weird,
But the God who knows only four words.
And keeps repeating them, saying:
“Come Dance with Me, come dance.”

Hafiz

Every time a child says

Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

~James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan

No child

No child but must remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

~Robert Louis Stevenson