Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.  ~Fran Lebowitz

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.  ~Harold Hulbert

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw

We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up. ~Christopher Morley

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~Harold Hulbert

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.  ~Deepak ChopraA

Childhood is the most beautiful of all life’s seasons.  ~Author Unknown

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.  ~John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones

Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, “I am running away.”
“If you run away,” said his mother, “I will run after you. For you are my little bunny.”

from The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown.