“May there be a generation of children on the children of your children.”
“Earthmen may even rule at Trantor for a generation, but their children will become Trantorians, and in their turn will look down upon the remnant on Earth.”
“Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.”
“Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back, but so they will kiss their children, and their children's children.”
“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong”
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... 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.”