Quotes about children

"We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."

Tauscher, Stacia on children
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"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."

Taylor, Jeremy on children   

"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."

Torrie, Alfred on children   

"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."

Tracy, Brian on children
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"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."

Truman, Harry S on children
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"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."

Unknown, Source on children   

"Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does. "

Unknown, Source on children
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"Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go"

Unknown, Source on children   

"Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards."

Unknown, Source on children   

"Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too."

Unknown, Source on children   

"What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children."

Unknown, Source on children   

"The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself."

Unknown, Source on children   

"Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children."

Unknown, Source on children   

"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."

Updike, John on children   

"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."

Vaughan, Bill on children   

"Never have children, only grand children."

Vidal, Gore on children   

"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."

Waitley, Denis on children
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"Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight."

Watts, Isaac on children   

"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."

Whitehorn, Katharine on children   

"There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes."

Who, Dr. on children   

"Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world."

Wiesel, Elie on children   

"The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation."

Wilbur, Ray L. on children
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"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."

Wilde, Oscar on children
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"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."

Wilde, Oscar on children
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"Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out."

Wilde, Oscar on children   

"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."

Wilder, Thornton on children   

"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."

Wilder, Thornton on children   

"We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual."

Will, George F. on children   

"Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories."

Wilmot, John on children   

"The child is the father of the man."

Wordsworth, William on children   

"Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards."

Xavier, St.Francis on children   

"When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world."

Ziglar, Zig on children
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"These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up."

Manson, Charles on children   

"A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you."

Manson, Charles on children   

" Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1975"

Sheen, Fulton John on children   

"Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression."

Ginnott, Haim on children   

"All they need is the presence of their parents and they do the rest themself."

Tadj Abelkader on children   

"All they need is the presence of their parents and they do the rest themselves."

Tadj Abelkader on children