Character Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A child is a part of the self, and of the loved partner; a representation of generations past; the genes of the forebears; the…

— Beverly Raphael

“Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold…

— Sydney J. Harris

Parenting @ a higher level of consciousness:1st love self so deeply that when ur child misbehaves U do not have 2 react @LoveNever_Fails When…

— Kevin Heath

“To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and then to develop a zealous attachment…

— Andrew Solomon

A child deserves love, affection, the chance to just play and do nothing, to sit under a tree, read a book, dream and not…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

“The kid, whose existence became a hallucination at seven, and a catastrophe at fourteen, and a disaster after that, whose vocation is to be…

— Philip Roth

The child, making use of all that he finds around him, shapes himself for the future.

— Maria Montessori

The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult…

— Gloria Steinem

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

— George Eliot

Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it…

— Benjamin Spock

“One of pleasures of parenting, future reader: parent can positively influence kid, make moment kid will remember for rest of life, moment that alters…

— George Saunders