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• "Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults." --Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) Emotions

• “Children hallow small things. A child is a priest of the ordinary, fulfilling a sacred office that absolutely no one else can fill. The simplest gesture, the ephemeral movement, the commonest object all become precious beyond words when touched, noticed, lived by one's own dear child.”
  

— Mike Mason, The Mystery of Children (Colorado Springs: Waterbrook Press, 2001), p. 27

Attributed

• "There is no wealth without children. It is the duty of children to wait on elders, not elders on children." --Anonymous

• "A child is that which tells in the street what his parents say at home." --Anonymous

• "A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world." --Olive Schreiner

• "If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• "If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money." --Abigail Van Buren

• "In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul." --Lisa T. Shepherd

• "Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves." --D.H. Lawrence

• "People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one." --Leo J. Burke

• "The best inheritance a person can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day." --O.A. Battista

• "The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any." --Katharine Whitehorn

• "The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children." --King Edward VIII

• "There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it" --Astrid Lindgren

• "Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve." --Roger Lewin