"We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. " ~~ Phyllis Diller
"Happy he that grew up with a good name and departed this world with one." ~~ Talmud, Berakhot
"A young man has to live and an old man wants to." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. " ~~ Phyllis Diller
"Childhood is a kind of Paradise." ~~ M. I. Levensohn
"If an orphan boy and an orphan girl need support, or apply for a marriage grant, the girl is cared for first. The boy may beg, but not the girl. " ~~ Tosefta: Ketubot
"Let a father wed his daughter to a scholar, even if he spend all his money on her dowry!" ~~ Tanna Deve Eliyahu R.
"At five, your son is your master; at ten, your slave; at fifteen, your double; and after that, he is your friend or foe—depending on how you raised him." ~~ [Based on] Proverbs (Mishle) 13:24
"Wine is the cause of a great deal, and so is childhood." ~~ Talmud, Sota
"O that I had died instead of thee! O Absalom my son, my son! [King David] " ~~ Second Samuel (Shmuel 2) 19:1
"Don’t gossip about the children of others while yours are still growing up." ~~ Talmud, Nedarim
"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. " ~~ Anne Frank
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