The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror’s booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.                                                                        ––Arthur Schopenhauer

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent.                                                            ––Elinor Goulding Smith

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

                                                                         ––Alice Miller

 

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

                                                                   ––Harry S. Truman

 

Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world. ––Jamaica Kincaid

 

A child is a person who can’t understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.          ––Doug Horton

I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I’ve done my job.       ––Roseanne Barr

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.           ––Florida Scott-Maxwell

 

Children aren’t happy without something to ignore, / And that’s what parents were created for.          ––Ogden Nash

 

What feeling is so nice as a child’s hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

                                               ––Marjorie Holmes