“A man growing old becomes a child again”
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“A man growing old becomes a child again”
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste”
“If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed”
“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment”
“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom”
“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children”
“A mother who is really a mother is never free”
“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers”
“The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother”
“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence”
“Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children”
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”
“How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted”
“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves”
“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass”
“Those we have held in our arms for a short while we hold in our hearts forever”
“Parents hold their children's hands for just a little while .. their hearts forever ”
“Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well”
“Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature”
“Children use the fist until they are of the age to use the brain”