Children Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality so badly…

— Salman Rushdie

If time came before me, time is not before the Word, whose Begetter is atemporal. When the beginningless Father was there, leaving nothing superior…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

— Frederick Henry Hedge

What is the son but an extension of the father?

— Frank Herbert

We are all children until our fathers die.

— Melissa Bank

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe…

— John Woolman

Father Time catches up with us all.

— Steve Nicol

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

— Francis Herbert Hedge

“In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

“The father dead has euchered the son out of his patrimony. For it is the death of the father to which the son is…

— Cormac McCarthy

Though a child of man knows time, life itself is eternal.

— Miyuki Miyabe

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

— Pam Brown