Quotes about children

"Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on children
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"Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant."

Hunt, Leigh on children   

"Your children need your presence more than your presents."

Jackson, Jesse on children   

"Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never."

Jameson, Anna on children   

"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."

Jarrell, Randall on children
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"Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them."

Johnson, Lady Bird on children   

"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next."

Jones, Franklin P. on children   

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."

Jones, Franklin P. on children
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"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."

Jordan, June on children   

"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."

Jordan, June on children   

"Children need models rather than critics."

Joubert, Joseph on children   

"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."

Kaplan, Louis on children   

"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."

Keillor, Garrison on children   

"A child miseducated is a child lost."

Kennedy, John F. on children
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"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."

Key, Ellen on children   

"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."

Kipling, Rudyard on children   

"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."

Klee, Paul on children   

"A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants."

Kraus, Karl on children   

"Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future."

La Bruyere, Jean De on children   

"We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them."

Lair, Dr. Jess on children
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"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."

Lamb, Charles on children   

"A child is fed with milk and praise."

Lamb, Mary on children   

"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."

Landers, Ann on children   

"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."

Larkin, Philip on children   

"The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent."

Lazarus, Mel on children   

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on children   

"Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."

Lewin, Roger on children   

"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."

Long, Lazarus on children
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"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on children   

"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."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on children   

"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."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on children
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"My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one."

Marx, Groucho on children   

"Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children."

Mead, Margaret on children   

"What is done to children, they will do to society."

Menninger, Karl A. on children   

"A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in."

Meyer, Adolph on children   

"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."

Meynell, Alice on children   

"For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on children   

"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men."

Montessori, Maria on children   

"We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up."

Morley, Christopher on children   

"He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy."

Moses, Robert on children