“Little Polly Flinders Sat among the cinders, Warming her pretty little toes. Her mother came and caught her, And whipped her little daughter For spoiling her nice new clothes. Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
“If you don’t have children the longing for them will kill you, and if you do, the worrying over them will kill you.Buchi Emecheta
“Greatness of name in the father… oft-times overwhelms the son; they stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth: so much, that we see the grandchild come more and oftener to be heir of the first.Ben Jonson
“If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.George Bernard Shaw