1935 Quote by Meher Baba

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Our ancestors believed that they were not born complete. There was someone out there with a part of their heart and soul. When they…

— Eden Cole

It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of…

— Maria Montessori

“To have a child is to voluntarily bare one’s soul to the angst that arises when we love another human being more than we…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In short, we evolved, like other animals, to win the reproduction game. That contest has a single aim, to leave as many descendants as…

— Jared Diamond

“Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born…

— John Stuart Mill

“It is along the strands of the world that the privilege of possessing children is most blatantly seen. What torment for the spinster and…

— Sebastian Barry

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

— Achy Obejas

People change naturally when they have children.

— Jimmy Barnes

Children are born as individuals. If we fail to see that, if we see them as clay to be molded in any shape we…

— Melvin Konner

“Now these delightful infants are born haphazardly of any mating, any parents, treated well or ill as chance dictates, dying as easily as they…

— Doris Lessing

Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents.

— Michael Lewis