Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

17.

Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

18.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Fran Lebowitz

20.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Diller

21.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

22.

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

23.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

24.

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

25.

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

26.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

27.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

Novalis

28.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Epictetus

29.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

30.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Burbank, Luther

31.

Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

32.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

Moses, Robert

33.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Lawana Blackwell

34.

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

35.

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope, Alexander

36.

Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

37.

Children and drunks always speak the truth.

Proverb

38.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

39.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Proverb, English

40.

Adults are obsolete children.

Seuss, Dr.

41.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Dogen

42.

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

Greer, Germaine

43.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

44.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

45.

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

46.

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

47.

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

48.

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

49.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

50.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Wilde, Oscar