Quote: Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriously to take his threats. Of course, they sometimes misjudge and pay the penalty.
Author: Louis Kaplan
Quote: Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Author: Garrison Keillor 1942-, American Humorous Writer, Radio Performer
Quote: A child miseducated is a child lost.
Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA
Quote: For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.
Author: Ellen Key 1849-1926, Swedish Author, Feminist
Quote: Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
Author: Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse
Quote: Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Author: Paul Klee 1879-1940, Swiss Artist
Quote: A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Author: Karl Kraus 1874-1936, Austrian Satirist
Quote: Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Author: Jean De La Bruyere 1645-1696, French Writer
Quote: We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
Author: Dr. Jess Lair American Professor, Counselor
Quote: When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.
Author: Charles Lamb 1775-1834, British Essayist, Critic
Quote: A child is fed with milk and praise. Author: Mary Lamb
Quote: What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.
Author: Ann Landers 1918-, American Advice Columnist
Quote: 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.
Author: Philip Larkin 1922-1986, British Poet
Quote: The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
Author: Mel Lazarus
Quote: Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Author: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 1870-1924, Russian Revolutionary Leader
Quote: Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Author: Roger Lewin
Quote: Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Author: Lazarus Long
Quote: A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1928-, Colombian Writer
Quote: My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Author: Groucho Marx 1895-1977, American Comic Actor
Quote: Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Author: Margaret Mead 1901-1978, American Anthropologist
Quote: What is done to children, they will do to society.
Author: Karl A. Menninger 1893-1990, American Psychiatrist
Quote: A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.
Author: Adolph Meyer
Quote: A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.
Author: Alice Meynell 1847-1922, British Poet, Essayist
Quote: For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Author: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist
Quote: If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Author: Maria Montessori 1870-1952, Italian Educator
Quote: We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
Author: Christopher Morley 1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet
Quote: He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
Author: Robert Moses
Quote: Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
Author: Clark Moustakas Humanistic Psychologist
Quote: Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Author: Ogden Nash 1902-1971, American Humorous Poet
Quote: Where children are, there is the golden age.
Author: Novalis 1772-1801, German Poet, Novelist
Quote: Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
Author: Austin O'Malley
Quote: One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
Author: George Orwell 1903-1950, British Author, ''Animal Farm''
Quote: How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.
Author: Dorothy Parker 1893-1967, American Humorous Writer
Quote: Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist
Quote: You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
Author: John Plomp
Quote: The wildest colts make the best horses.
Author: Plutarch 46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer
Quote: Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Author: Letty Cottin Pogrebin 1939-, American Journalist, Author
Quote: If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
Author: Roman Polanski 1933-, Polish Film, Director
Quote: A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Author: Lyman Abbott 1835-1922, American Congregational Clergyman and Editor
Quote: 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
Author: John Adams 1735-1826, Second President of the USA
Quote: Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Author: Maya Angelou 1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer
Quote: Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
Author: Maya Angelou 1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer
Quote: It's fun being a kid.
Author: Bradford Arthur Angier
Quote: The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
Author: W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet
Quote: Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Author: Gaston Bachelard 1884-1962, French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist
Quote: Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Author: Lucille Ball 1911-1989, American Actress, Producer
Quote: There is no sinner like a young saint.
Author: Aphra Behn 1640-1689, British Playwright, Poet
Quote: It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.
Author: Ben Bergor
Quote: Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]
Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Author: Erma Bombeck 1927-, American Author, Humorist
Quote: Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Author: Erma Bombeck 1927-, American Author, Humorist
Quote: Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
Quote: Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
Author: John Bradshaw American Author, Lecturer, Leading Expert, Recovery & Dysfunctional Families
Quote: The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: ''Never hurt anybody.''
Author: Denis Breeze
Quote: But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861, British Poet
Quote: What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Author: Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973, American Novelist
Quote: 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.
Author: Luther Burbank 1849-1926, American Horticulturist
Quote: The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
Author: Charles Buxton 1823-1871, British Author
Quote: A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.
Author: Beatrix Campbell 1947-, British Journalist
Quote: 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.
Author: Elias Canetti 1905-, Austrian Novelist, Philosopher
Quote: Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.
Author: Al Capp 1909-1979, American Cartoonist
Quote: There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Author: Alexander Chase
Quote: There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: Children have more need of models than of critics.
Author: Carolyn Coats
Quote: It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 1873-1954, French Author
Quote: Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
Author: Bill Cosby 1937-, American Actor, Comedian, Producer
Quote: For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.
Author: Thomas J. Cottle
Quote: Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Author: Marcelene Cox American Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Marcelene Cox American Writer
Quote: There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
Author: Monta Crane
Quote: It takes three to make a child.
Author: E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings 1894-1962, American Poet
Quote: All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Author: Madame Marie Curie 1867-1934, Polish-born French Physicist
Quote: Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
Author: Richard H. Dana 1815-1882, American Writer, Lawyer
Quote: When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Author: Rodney Dangerfield American Comedian, Actor
Quote: Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Author: Bette Davis 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer
Quote: It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.
Author: Midge Decter 1927-, American Author, Editor, Social Critic
Quote: Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children. Author: Princess of Wales Diana 1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
Quote: Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Author: Phyllis Diller 1861-1951, American Columnist
Quote: Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.
Author: Robert Pollok 1798-1827, Scottish Religious Poet
Quote: Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
Author: Proverb
Quote: Children and drunks always speak the truth.
Author: Proverb
Quote: There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
Author: Proverb
Quote: Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: Children are poor men's riches.
Author: John Ray 1627-1705, British Naturalist
Quote: My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
Author: Adrienne Rich 1929-, American Poet
Quote: 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.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Quote: Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
Quote: The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it''
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
Quote: Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.
Author: Samuel Rutherford 1600-1661, Scottish Pastor
Quote: Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.
Author: Saki
Quote: Adults are obsolete children.
Author: Dr. Seuss 1904-1991, American Writer and Illustrator of Children's Books
Quote: Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: In all our efforts to provide ''advantages'' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.''
Author: Eda J. Le Shan 1922-, American Educator, Author
Quote: You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
Author: Gypsy Smith
Quote: What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist
Quote: The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
Author: Benjamin Spock 1903-, American Pediatrician
Quote: There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it --benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their ''good'' subjects and punishment to their ''bad'' ones, who are amused at the ''cleverness'' of children and annoyed by their ''stupidities.''
Author: Viola Spolin 1911-, American Theatrical Director, Producer
Quote: Children are the keys of paradise.
Author: Richard Henry Stoddard 1825-1903, American Critic, Poet
Quote: I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.
Author: Jonathan Swift 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist
Quote: We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Author: Stacia Tauscher
Quote: No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.
Author: Jeremy Taylor 1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer
Quote: It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: ''What I gave I have.'' We have to love them and lose them.
Author: Alfred Torrie
Quote: If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Author: Brian Tracy American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
Quote: 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.
Author: Harry S. Truman 1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA
Quote: Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Little girl's definition of conscience: ''Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does. ''
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
Author: Dr. James C. Dobson American Psychologist, Author
Quote: Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.
Author: Dr. James C. Dobson American Psychologist, Author
Quote: You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
Author: Dogen
Quote: So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Author: Isadora Duncan 1878-1927, American Dancer
Quote: The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
Author: Isadora Duncan 1878-1927, American Dancer
Quote: Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
Author: Harry Edwards
Quote: 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.
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich 1941-, American Author, Columnist
Quote: Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Author: Black Elk 19th Century American Native Religious Leader
Quote: The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
Author: Epictetus 50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Quote: Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
Author: Francois FTNelon 1651-1715, French Writer
Quote: When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Author: Henry Fielding 1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Author: Sigmund Freud 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
Quote: Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
Author: Betty Friedan 1921-, American Feminist Writer
Quote: It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
Author: David Fyfe 1900-1967, British Statesman, Jurist
Quote: You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
Quote: If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.
Author: Thomas Gray 1716-1771, British Poet
Quote: Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
Author: Graham Greene 1904-1991, British Novelist
Quote: 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.
Author: Germaine Greer 1939-, Australian Feminist Writer
Quote: I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
Author: Jack Handey
Quote: Children always turn to the light.
Author: David Hare 1947-, British Playwright, Director
Quote: 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.
Author: Jane Harrison 1850-1928, British Classical Scholar, Writer
Quote: 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.
Author: Shirley Hazzard 1931-, Australian-born American Author
Quote: A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
Quote: Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Author: Herbert Clark Hoover 1874-1964, American - 31st American President
Quote: Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
Author: Bob Hope 1903-, American Comedian, Actor
Quote: Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
Author: Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author
Quote: Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.
Author: Harold Hulbert
Quote: Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey 1911-1978, American Democratic Politician, Vice President
Quote: Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
Author: Leigh Hunt 1784-1859, British Poet, Essayist
Quote: Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Author: Jesse Jackson 1941-, American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader
Quote: Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
Author: Anna Jameson 1794-1860, British Essayist
Quote: One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
Author: Randall Jarrell 1914-1965, American Poet, Critic
Quote: Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Author: Lady Bird Johnson
Quote: Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Author: Franklin P. Jones
Quote: You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Author: Franklin P. Jones
Quote: Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
Author: June Jordan 1939-, American Poet, Civil Rights Activist
Quote: To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.
Author: June Jordan 1939-, American Poet, Civil Rights Activist
Quote: Children need models rather than critics.
Author: Joseph Joubert 1754-1824, French Moralist
Quote: With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.
Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
Author: John Updike 1932-, American Novelist, Critic
Quote: A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Author: Bill Vaughan 1915-1977, American Author, Journalist
Quote: Never have children, only grand children.
Author: Gore Vidal 1925-, American Novelist, Critic
Quote: Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.
Author: Isaac Watts 1674-1748, British hymn-writer
Quote: Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
Author: Katharine Whitehorn 1926-, British Journalist
Quote: There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.
Author: Dr. Who
Quote: Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Author: Elie Wiesel 1928-, Rumanian-born American Writer
Quote: The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
Author: Ray L. Wilbur
Quote: Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Author: Thornton Wilder 1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright
Quote: Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
Author: Thornton Wilder 1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright
Quote: We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
Author: George F. Will 1941-, American Political Columnist
Quote: Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.
Author: John Wilmot 1647-1680, British Courtier, Poet
Quote: The child is the father of the man.
Author: William Wordsworth 1770-1850, British Poet
Quote: Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.
Author: St.Francis Xavier 1506-1552, Roman Catholic Missionary
Quote: When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Author: Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker
Quote: An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with—for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.
Author: Doc Childre
Quote: For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become. Author: Joseph Chilton Pearce
Quote: As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community?
Author: Dawna Markova
Quote: Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.
Author: Thomas Bray
Quote: If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
Author: Rachel Carson
Quote: 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.
Author: Harry S Truman
Quote: I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
Author: Mario Cuomo
Quote: Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Author: Jesse Jackson
Quote: We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Author: Roy L. Smith
Quote: My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Author: Clarence Budinton Kelland
Quote: Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
Author: Doug Larson
Quote: Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.
Author: Dennis Fakes
Quote: Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Author: Bill Cosby
Quote: Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.
Author: Ed Asner
Quote: Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Author: Graham Green
Quote: Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
Author: Martin Mull
Quote: Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Author: Peter Ustinov
Quote: You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
Author: John Plomp
Quote: A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Author: Bill Vaughan
Quote: Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
Author: Laurence J. Peter
Quote: The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
Author: Margaret Fuller
Quote: Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
Author: Unknown
Quote: There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Author: Hodding Carter
Quote: The phrase 'working mother' is redundant.
Author: Jane Sellman
Quote: People often ask me, What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood? In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources--all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.
Author: Paul Reiser
Quote: Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Author: Bill Cosby
Quote: Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.
Author: Joyce Armor
Quote: If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Author: Milton Berle
Quote: Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Author: Phyllis Diller
Quote: Laughter is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't permanently solve any problems, but it makes things more acceptable for a while.
Author: Unknown
Quote: I don't know why they say you have a baby. The baby has you.
Author: Gallagher
Quote: People who say they sleep like babies usually don't have them.
Author: Leo J. Burke
Quote: I was cesarean born. You can't really tell, although whenever I leave a house, I go out through a window.
Author: Steven Wright
Quote: Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.
Author: John Wilmot
Quote: First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.
Author: Prochnow
Quote: A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.
Author: Russell Lynes
Quote: When I was born, I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and a half.
Author: Gracie Allen
Quote: Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies never are.
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Quote: A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Author: Ronald Reagan
Quote: A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Author: Fran Lebowitz
Quote: Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
Author: Richard Armour
Quote: If your baby is beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time, you're the grandma.
Author: Theresa Bloomingdale
Quote: No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.
Author: Amy Leslie
Quote: You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Author: Franklin P. Jones
Quote: Families with babies and families without are so sorry for each other.
Author: Ed Howe
Quote: Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Author: Carol Burnett
Quote: My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.
Author: Joan Rivers
Quote: Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Author: Phyllis Diller
Quote: Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.
Author: Unknown
Quote: Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quote: Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
Author: P.J. O'Rourke
Quote: Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Quote: Invest in the future; have a child and teach her well.
Author: Unknown
Quote: The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Author: Edward, Duke of Windsor
Quote: Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
Author: George Eliot Romola
Quote: A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
Author: Mark Twain
Quote: Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Author: James Baldwin
Quote: We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Author: Harold Hulbert
Quote: It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Author: Frederick Douglas
Quote: A mother's children are portraits of herself.
Author: Unknown
Quote: Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved.
Author: Mark Twain
Quote: There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote: The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of their tires.
Author: Dorothy Parker
Quote: You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
Author: P.J. O'Rourke
Quote: A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Author: Carl Sandburg
Quote: The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
Author: John Lennon
Quote: Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
Author: Plato
Quote: The beauty of “spacing” children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones—which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Author: Sydney J. Harris
Quote: When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in 7 years.
Author: Mark Twain
Quote: When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
Author: Austin O'Malley
Quote: We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Author: Phyllis Diller
Quote: The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.
Author: Shannon Fife
Quote: The hand that rocks the cradle usually is attached to someone who isn't getting enough sleep.
Author: John Fiebig
Quote: A baby usually wakes up in the wee-wee hours of the morning.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: Children are gleeful barbarians.
Author: Joseph Morgenstern
Quote: If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
Author: Dave Barry
Quote: And my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.
Author: Woody Allen
Quote: Ask the young, they know everything!
Author: Joubert
Quote: Always obey your parents - when they are present.
Author: Mark Twain
Quote: One of my children wrote in a third-grade piece on how her mother spent her time. one-half time on home, one-half time on outside things, one-half time writing.
Author: Charlotte Montgomery
Quote: By the time a girl becomes a teenager, her parents are so old that she cannot do anything with them.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: A teenager is always too tired to hold a dishcloth, but never too tired to hold a phone.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: There's nothing wrong with teenagers that trying to reason with them won't aggravate.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: Here is this baby and he refuses to eat his solid food. (Solid in this case is a euphemism for squishy.) Are you a failure as a parent? Is he a failure as a baby? Is the pediatrician a failure as a pediatrician? Would the baby rather have a hot pastrami sandwich? This brings us to the primary rule of baby raising, which is the solution to this and all subsequent problems. This rule must be followed faithfully, and practiced regularly, and you should make it a habit to repeat it to yourself ten times a day. It is the _Golden Rule_ of raising babies. LIE. Lie to your mother, lie to your sisters and aunts, and above all, lie to all the other mothers you meet on the street. When a newer mother than you asks for your help. tell her you never had the least trouble. Your baby just loved his mashed bananas on the first try.
Author: Elinor Goulding Smith
Quote: By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Author: Charles Wadsworth
Quote: The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Author: Clarence Darrow
Quote: Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
Author: Ogden Nash
Quote: A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
Author: Anonymous
Quote: There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone to do it, or forbid your children from doing it.
Author: Monta Crane
Quote: Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.
Author: Red Skelton
Quote: Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
Author: Abraham Kaplan
Quote: You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Author: John Ciardi
Quote: Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
Author: Robert Gallagher
Quote: I think we’re seeing in working mothers a change from “Thank God it’s Friday” to “Thank God it’s Monday.” If any working mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent.
Author: Ann Diehl
Quote: Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Author: Erma Bombeck
Quote: Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.
Author: Ted Cook
Quote: Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Author: Franklin P. Jones
Quote: Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!
Author: Steven Wright
Quote: My friend has a baby. I'm writing down all the noises the baby makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
Author: Steven Wright
Quote: As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.
Author: Bill Cosby
Quote: My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.
Author: Bill Cosby
Quote: Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
Author: Fran Lebowitz
Quote: Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Author: Phyllis Diller
Quote: The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
Author: Jean Kerr
Quote: There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Author: Ann Diehl
Quote: Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle--keep away from children.
Author: Phyllis Diller
Quote: Never have children, only grandchildren.
Author: Gore Vidal
Quote: Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?
Author: Emo Philips
Quote: Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.
Author: Shannon Fife
Quote: Insanity is hereditary -- you get it from your children.
Author: Sam Levenson
Quote: Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half -- especially if he has a teenage daughter.
Author: Guy Lombardo
Quote: Children are a great comfort in your old age. And they help you reach it faster, too.
Author: Lionel Kauffman
Quote: Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Author: Fran Lebowitz
Quote: Happiness is having a large, loving, close-knit family in another city.
Author: George Burns
Quote: My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.
Author: Joan Rivers
Quote: The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Author: Margaret Mead
Quote: If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Author: Maria Montessori
Quote: A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo planes don't compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devises and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable.
Author: Carl Sandburg
Quote: Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
Author: John W. Whitehead
Quote: We must care about the world of our children and grandchildren, a world we may never see.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Quote: We cannot always build the future of our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Quote: The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Quote: If we are to attain real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a war against war, we will have to begin with the children.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Quote: It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.
Author: James C. Dobson
Quote: As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Author: John Paul II
Quote: Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
Quote: In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
Author: John Ruskin
Quote: Where children are, there is the golden age.
Author: Novalis
Quote: Children are always the only future the human race has; teach them well.
Author: Unknown
Quote: The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'
Author: Alice Walker
Quote: I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
Author: Diogenes
Quote: If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Author: Thomas Paine
Quote: I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
Author: John Adams
Quote: The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every betrayal, every hateful act towards children returns tenfold a few decades later upon the historical stage, while every empathic act that helps a child become what he or she wants to become, every expression of love toward children heals society and moves it in unexpected, wondrous new directions.
Author: Lloyd de Mause
Quote: Grown men can learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Author: Black Elk
Quote: We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world--or to make it the last.
Author: John F. Kennedy
Quote: If we could obtain a distinct and full history of all that hath passed in the mind of a child from the beginning of life and sensation till it grows up to the use of reason, how its infant faculties began to work, and how they brought forth and ripened all the various notions, opin-ions, and sentiments, which we find in ourselves when we come to be capable of reflection, this would be a trea-sure of natural history which would probably give more light into the human faculties, than all the systems of philosophers about them from the beginning of the world.
Author: Thomas Reid
Quote: I have no greater joy than to see my children playing at their mother's feet.
Author: unknown