"Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant — even if they wanted to be one?" ~~ Jackie Mason
"Who circumcises his son is as though he offered all the sacrifices to the Lord." ~~ Zohar, Genesis
"The talk of the child in the street is that of his father or mother at home." ~~ Talmud, Sotah
"The child honors his mother more than his father because his mother affects him by her words—so God set the honoring of the father before the honoring of the mother; and the child fears his father more than his mother, because it is the father who teaches him Torah—so God set the fearing of the mother before the fearing of the father." ~~ Talmud, Kiddushin 31a
"You’ve got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I’ll bet he was glad to get rid of it. " ~~ Groucho Marx
"The hearts of the parents will return though their children." ~~ Malachi 3:24
"Our sages recommended that a father should spend less than his means on food, up to his means on dress, and beyond his means for his wife and children." ~~ Maimonides
"Children grow up, parents grow old." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"A bundle of reeds cannot be broken by a man; but, taken singly, even a child can break them." ~~ Tanchuma
"Boys should be given bread, old men—oil, babies—honey." ~~ Talmud, Yoma
"The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever. [Deuteronomy (Devarim) 29:28]—The trouble is that even the revealed things are unseen by us. " ~~ Reuven Alcalay
"Great is the pain of bringing up sons, and greater of bringing up daughters." ~~ Shalom Aleichem