There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
The best inheritance a parent can give his children
is a few minutes of his time each day.
- Orlando A. Battista
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal,
with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
- John Ciardi
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Further reading: Our Grandchildren's Planet
Feeding the Children
God's Children
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