Children Quotes

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.