Quotes about children

"Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him."

Moustakas, Clark on children   

"Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for."

Nash, Ogden on children   

"Where children are, there is the golden age."

Novalis on children   

"Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense."

O'Malley, Austin on children   

"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."

Orwell, George on children
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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

Ovid on children   

"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires."

Parker, Dorothy on children
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"Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up."

Picasso, Pablo on children
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"You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."

Plomp, John on children   

"The wildest colts make the best horses."

Plutarch on children   

"Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list."

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin on children   

"If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children."

Polanski, Roman on children   

"Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven."

Pollok, Robert on children   

"Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw."

Pope, Alexander on children   

"There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them."

Proverb on children
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"Children and drunks always speak the truth."

Proverb on children
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"A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap."

Proverb on children
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"Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time."

Proverb, Chinese on children
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"Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old."

Proverb, English on children   

"Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off."

Proverb, English on children   

"Children are poor men's riches."

Ray, John on children   

"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."

Rich, Adrienne on children   

"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."

Roosevelt, Theodore on children   

"Childhood is the sleep of reason."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on children   

"The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it"

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on children   

"The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present."

Ruskin, John on children
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"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."

Ruskin, John on children   

"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."

Ruskin, John on children   

"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."

Rutherford, Samuel on children
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"Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions."

Saki on children   

"Adults are obsolete children."

Seuss, Dr. on children
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"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong."

Shakespeare, William on children   

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child."

Shakespeare, William on children   

"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."

Shan, Eda J. Le on children   

"You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table."

Smith, Gypsy on children   

"What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?"

Smith, Logan Pearsall on children   

"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."

Spock, Benjamin on children   

"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."

Spolin, Viola on children   

"Children are the keys of paradise."

Stoddard, Richard Henry on children   

"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."

Swift, Jonathan on children