Children Quotes

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."