•“It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.” 
― Frank Warren

•“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” 
― Frederick Douglass 

•“The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, the second half by our children.” 
― Clarence Darrow

•“You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.” 
― Bill Cosby 

•“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.” 
― Robert A. Heinlein

•“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” 
― Theodore Hesburgh 

•“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” 
― Angela Schwindt

•“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.” 
― Phyllis Diller 

•“All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. ” 
― Erma Bombeck

•“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.” 
― Ludwig van Beethoven 

•“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.” 
― John Wilmot

•“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.” 
― P. J. O'Rourke 

•“I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.”
― Jodi Picoult

•“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.” 
― Zora Neale Hurston 

•“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.” 
― Plato

•“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” 
― James A. Baldwin   

•“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.” 
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

•“The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.” 
― Karen Maezen Miller

•“If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.” 
― Bette Davis

•“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” 
― Oscar Wilde

•“The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.” 
― Theodore Roosevelt 

•“Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.” 
― Iris Marion Young

•“All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.” 
― Franklin P. Jones 

•“You should listen to even the smallest voice, someday it could be the one that makes a difference.” 
― Crystal Marcos

•“Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.” 
― Democritus 

•“Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.” 

•“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” 

•“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” 
― Denis Waitley 

•“In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.” 
― Herodotus

•“I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.” 
― Barbara Bush   

•“We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.” 
― Roy L. Smith   

•“This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.” 
― Jerry Spinelli

•“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.” 
― Aristotle 

•“What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future.” 
― Steve Maraboli

•“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.” 
― Napoleon Bonaparte   

•“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.” 
― Josh Billings

•“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” 
― Robert Fulghum 

•“The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.” 
― Madeleine L'Engle

•“A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.” 
― Elizabeth Gaskell