Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.Benjamin Franklin
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.Bernard Shaw
If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.Bernard Shaw
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.Bernard Shaw
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.Bernard Shaw
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John F. Kennedy
