Men are what their mothers made them

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes

Walter M. Schirra, Sr.

Children are the wisdom of the nation.

West African saying

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S. Truman

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold S. Hubert