"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."

Hubbard, Elbert | Parents and Parenting | 2 bookmarks

"I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex."

Handey, Jack | Children | 1 bookmarks

"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults."

Vries, Peter De | Marriage | 3 bookmarks

"Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?"

Kraus, Karl | Army and Navy | 1 bookmarks

"In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children."

Ruskin, John | Children | 1 bookmarks

"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."

Lebowitz, Fran | Beauty | 6 bookmarks

"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."

Szasz, Thomas | Happiness | 1 bookmarks

"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."

Edgeworth, Maria | Confidence | 4 bookmarks

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath | Adversity | 53 bookmarks

"Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life -- after that you cannot be deceived."

Saying, Zen | Zen | 5 bookmarks