May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.
~Irish Blessing

It's not only children who grow.  Parents do too.  As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours.  I can't tell my children to reach for the sun.  All I can do is reach for it, myself.  ~Joyce Maynard

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” - Dr Seuss

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.  ~Josh Billings

Mute though his lips be, yet they still speak.  Hushed is his voice, but its echoes of liberty are ringing through the world, and the sons of bondage listen with joy.  ~Matthew Simpson