“By raising a child we should also help raise our children's generation, not just raise him or her alone.”
“Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)”
“Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child.”
“There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one's sense of what is real.”
“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.”
“There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.”