"Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven." - Robert Pollok

"Love gives all and requires nothing." -
 from "Conversations with God (Book 2)" through Neale Donald Walsch

"You are the bows from which your children, as living arrows, are sent forth." - Kahlil Gibran

"You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams." 
Kahlil Gibran

"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. "
~ Madame Marie Curie

"Children are the keys of paradise."
~ Richard Henry Stoddard

"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."
 ~ Mark Twain