Children Quotes

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.

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.