Best Quotes about Children
The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.
Landers, Ann
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Fielding, Henry
Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
Hulbert, Harold
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.
Meynell, Alice
There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.
Who, Dr.
The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Wilder, Thornton
Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.
Wilmot, John
It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: What I gave I have. We have to love them and lose them.
Torrie, Alfred
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Wiesel, Elie
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
Hunt, Leigh
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Tracy, Brian
I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran Lebowitz
A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
Proverb
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Chase, Alexander
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin
Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
Ruskin, John
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Kraus, Karl
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Freud, Sigmund
Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Dyer, Wayne
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
Wilder, Thornton
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Mary MacCracken
Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
Watts, Isaac
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
Wilbur, Ray L.
Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.
Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.
Diana, Princess of Wales
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Hoover, Herbert Clark
There is no sinner like a young saint.
Behn, Aphra
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Johnson, Lady Bird
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne
That's the funny thing about havin'a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.
Greg Garcia
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Curie, Madame Marie
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
Children are the keys of paradise.
Stoddard, Richard Henry
A child is fed with milk and praise.
Lamb, Mary
Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Roosevelt, Theodore
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.
Swift, Jonathan
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Abbott, Lyman
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.
Cottle, Thomas J.
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
Dobson, Dr. James C.
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
Cosby, Bill
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]
Bible
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
Jordan, June
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.
Capp, Al
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