parenthood

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

To bring up a child in the way he should go travel that way yourself once in a while.

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

Whatever you would have your children become strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

The best way to bring up some children is short.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.

Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.

I demand for the unmarried mother as a sacred channel of life the same reverence and respect as for the married mother for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass our conventions must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out it takes much more courage to listen.

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

Our sons who so easily recognize our errors and rightly denounce them will have to confess their own later on and they may be as bad as ours perhaps worse.

The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.