„He who lives as children live — who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance — remains childlike.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„No man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle.“
— Homér
„He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Does man think because he has found that thinking pays?Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„That farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself. I believe the same thing of a nation.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.“
— Stephen King
„Shiva is that master, and this world is His garden, and there are two sorts of gardeners here; the one who is lazy, hypocritical, and does nothing, only talking about Shiva's beautiful eyes and nose and other features; and the other, who is taking care of Shiva's children, all those that are poor and weak, all animals, and all His creation.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.“
— Walt Whitman