"I
found out, almost after it was too late, that my children were not born to
learn from my experiences; they were born to learn from their own…"
(Richard Bode)
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
(Shakespeare)
"Nobody knows a mother like her daughter."
(Nancy Friday)
"The mother’s lap is the child’s first
classroom" (old proverb)
"There is nothing in human nature more resonant with
charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of
which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to
give birth to the other. The Materials are here for the deepest mutuality and
the most painful estrangement." (Adrienne Rich)
"Dear son, So often parents think of their children
as failing investments whose cost in time and money outweighs the return.
Whenever I find myself thinking of you in that way, I picture God looking at
me. (Hugh Prather)
"…our parents always fail us massively and
decisively. Why is this so? Because they are limited human beings; and for the
same reason we, too, will fail our children. (Larry Jaffee)
" …a mother must not feel obligated to give up
herself. Not unless she wants to raise a motherless child." (Lisa Cronin
Wohl)
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to
give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings." (Hodding
Carter)
"Children have never been very good at listening to
their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." (James
Baldwin)
