Best Quotes about Children
Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.
Diana, Princess of Wales
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter Ustinov
Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
Moustakas, Clark
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
Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]
Bible
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Proverb, English
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
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
Eliot, George
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
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.
Capp, Al
What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Smith, Logan Pearsall
Where children are, there is the golden age.
Novalis
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
It takes three to make a child.
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)
Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Lewin, Roger
It's fun being a kid.
Angier, Bradford Arthur
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Mead, Margaret
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
Larkin, Philip
There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their good subjects and punishment to their bad ones, who are amused at the cleverness of children and annoyed by their stupidities.
Spolin, Viola
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Keillor, Garrison
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
A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
Ehrenreich, Barbara
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Chase, Alexander
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.
Who, Dr.
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
Plomp, John
Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Mary MacCracken
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.
Lamb, Charles
Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
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
A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
Proverb
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Wilde, Oscar
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Wilde, Oscar
Children always turn to the light.
Hare, David
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
Shakespeare, William
Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
Gray, Thomas
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
Rich, Adrienne
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
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Bachelard, Gaston
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Davis, Bette
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
Dogen
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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