“If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.” – David Frost

“Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” – William Butler Yeats

“Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.” [...]

“[A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own psychoanalysis.” – Nora Ephron

“A child of one can be taught not to do certain things such as touch a hot stove, turn on the gas, pull lamps off their tables by their cords, or wake mommy before noon” – Joan Rivers

“I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.” – Katharine Hepburn

“Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They’re to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.” – Earl Nightingale

“When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpseOut of the corner of my eye.I turned to look but it was goneI cannot put my finger on it nowThe child is grown, The dream is gone.I have become comfortably numb.” – Pink Floyd

“When a child is born, so are grandmothers.” – Judith Levy