Quotes about children

"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained."

Abbott, Lyman on children
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"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"

Adams, John on children   

"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."

Angelou, Maya on children
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"Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."

Angelou, Maya on children
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"It's fun being a kid."

Angier, Bradford Arthur on children   

"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own."

Auden, W. H. on children   

"Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event."

Bachelard, Gaston on children
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"There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it."

Baldwin, James on children   

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."

Baldwin, James on children
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"You see much more of your children once they leave home."

Ball, Lucille on children   

"There is no sinner like a young saint."

Behn, Aphra on children   

"It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner."

Bergor, Ben on children   

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. [I Corinthians 13:11]"

Bible on children   

"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]"

Bible on children   

"Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]"

Bible on children   

"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."

Bombeck, Erma on children   

"It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows."

Bombeck, Erma on children   

"Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on children   

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"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."

Bradshaw, John on children   

"The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: Never hurt anybody."

Breeze, Denis on children   

"But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on children   

"What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born."

Buck, Pearl S. on children   

"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."

Burbank, Luther on children   

"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."

Buxton, Charles on children   

"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."

Campbell, Beatrix on children   

"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."

Canetti, Elias on children   

"Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary."

Capp, Al on children   

"There are few successful adults who were not first successful children."

Chase, Alexander on children   

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

Churchill, Winston on children
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"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."

Cicero, Marcus T. on children
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"Children have more need of models than of critics."

Coats, Carolyn on children   

"It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on children   

"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."

Cosby, Bill on children
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"For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft."

Cottle, Thomas J. on children   

"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."

Cox, Marcelene on children   

"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."

Cox, Marcelene on children   

"There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it."

Crane, Monta on children
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"It takes three to make a child."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on children   

"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."

Curie, Madame Marie on children   

"Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children."

Dana, Richard H. on children