There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Boy, n.:  a noise with dirt on it.  ~Not Your Average Dictionary

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.  ~Rabindranath Tagore

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

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.  ~Pearl S. Buck

Children are one third of our population and all of our future.  ~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981

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