Best Quotes about Children
Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Howe, Edgar Watson
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
Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Lewin, Roger
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal
We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Tauscher, Stacia
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch
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
It's fun being a kid.
Angier, Bradford Arthur
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Fielding, Henry
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Canetti, Elias
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
La Bruyere, Jean De
There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Chase, Alexander
You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. 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.
Gibran, Kahlil
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
Adams, John
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
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Vaughan, Bill
Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
Hulbert, Harold
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
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
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
Angelou, Maya
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
Crane, Monta
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
Shakespeare, William
What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.
Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.
Daniel Raeburn
The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John J. Plomp
In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
Ruskin, John
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Cox, Marcelene
Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.
It takes three to make a child.
Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Buck, Pearl S.
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
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
Lawana Blackwell
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Nash, Ogden
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
Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
Moustakas, Clark
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]
Bible
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
Proverb, English
It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.
Decter, Midge
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Children are poor men's riches.
Ray, John
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Baldwin, James
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