Your Child Quotes

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.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.