Children Quotes

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.

I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

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.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Babies are cool, until you've done everything to do with 'em and you get bored. That's why T.V. shows about babies don't last more than a year.

Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

Your child can’t hurt you if you don’t accept the hurt. Let it go.

Allowing children to fight their own battles is one of the hardest parenting skills to learn.

When children feel they have to earn our love by what they accomplish, they never feel good about themselves, no matter how much they do, no matter what their age. Indeed, some adults work outrageous hours, make huge salaries, and always strive to accomplish more and yet are never satisfied, no matter what they have achieved. This is because they were never given the free, unconditional love of their parents, the love that is every child’s birthright.

Children should feel loved because they exist, not because they’ve behaved in a certain way.

Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out.

Children will adapt to nearly any rule or routine as long as it is consistently enforced within that particular household.

The best way to learn to be an honest, responsible adult is to live with adults who act honestly and responsibly.

One of the common causes of serious difficulty takes the form of parental self-discovery. The newly adopted child brings out submerged feelings or behavior in his parents that make them dislike themselves. This can be such a severe blow to their self- esteem that they must eradicate the cause of their distress. Sometimes the only way that parents are able to do that is by returning the child.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Children are all foreigners.

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

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

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

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Be gentle with the young.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

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

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!

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

Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

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.

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

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

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

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

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

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.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.

...adults are just obsolete children, and the hell with them.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions -- everyone but a school bus driver.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their
food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Children always understand. They have open minds. They have built-in shit detectors.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall.

Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.

A strict master will not have understanding sons.

The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.

We each have the kind of children we deserve.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Kids are cute, babies are cute, puppies are cute. The little things are cute. See, nature did this on purpose so that we would want to take care of our young. Made them cute. Tricked us. Then gradually they get older and older, until one day your mother sits you down and says, 'You know, I think you're ugly enough to get your own apartment.'

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

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

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.