Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

玩耍是孩子们的工作。这是非常严重的事情。

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

诗人说过，有孩子的原因是为了让自己长生不老。永生?现在我有五个孩子了，我唯一的希望就是在我死之前他们都离开家。

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

实践的智慧只有在经验的学校里才能学到。戒律和训诫，就其本身而言，是有用的，但如果没有现实生活的纪律，它们只具有理论的性质。

Pretty children sing pretty songs.

漂亮的孩子唱漂亮的歌。

Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.

永远不应该因为需要溺爱那些从小就对世界做出反应的成年人而阻碍进步。

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

心理治疗理论把一切都归咎于你:你才是错的那个人。如果一个孩子遇到麻烦或感到沮丧，问题不只是在孩子的内心;它也存在于系统和社会中。

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

坦率地说，教师是教我们孩子的唯一职业。

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.

抚养孩子是一种创造性的努力，是一门艺术，而不是一门科学。

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

抚养孩子是生活中极为重要的一部分。我认为最重要的时期之一，或者说最重要的时期之一。

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

视卒如婴儿，故可与之赴深溪；视卒如爱子，故可与之俱死。

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

记住，孩子、婚姻和花园反映了他们得到的关怀。

Remind children that their successes and failures are not representations of their worth.

提醒孩子们，他们的成功和失败并不能代表他们的价值。

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

尊重孩子。等着瞧大自然的新产品吧。大自然喜欢类比，但不喜欢重复。尊重孩子。不要太像他的父母。不要打扰他的孤独。

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

革命就像土星，吞噬它自己的孩子。

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

有钱的孩子把他们的旧衣服给了我们。它们是我们有过的最好的衣服。我们都是非常纯洁、天真、贫穷的孩子。有钱人家的孩子给我们起了很多名字，但我们从不介意，因为我们不知道这些词的意思。