"In disputes between parents and children, the children always get the upper hand." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time." ~~ Traditional Proverb
"The hearts of the parents will return though their children." ~~ Malachi 3:24
"A childless man is as good as dead." ~~ Talmud, Nedarim
"The sons of sages are not always sages—so that no one can think Torah is inherited, and so that the sages’ sons do not hold themselves superior to others." ~~ (adapted from) Sayings of the Fathers 2:12
"My mother loved children — she would have given anything if I had been one. " ~~ Groucho Marx
"Let a father wed his daughter to a scholar, even if he spend all his money on her dowry!" ~~ Tanna Deve Eliyahu R.
"When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business. " ~~ Lenny Bruce
"Don’t threaten a child: Either punish him or forgive him. " ~~ Talmud
"Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word “collectible” as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success. " ~~ Fran Lebowitz
"Great is the pain of bringing up sons, and greater of bringing up daughters." ~~ Shalom Aleichem
"It is easier to have children than to raise them." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 22:6
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