Children Quotes

~ Children are poor men's riches. ~ English Proverb

~ You will always be your child's favorite toy.~ Vicki Lansky

~ Children are our most valuable natural resource. ~ Herbert Hoover

~ What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. ~ P.D. James

~ He who teaches children learns more than they do. ~ German Proverb

~ A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~ Anonymous

~ Children have but little charity for one another's defects. ~ Mark Twain

~ Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~ Harold Hulbert

~ The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. ~ John J. Plomp

~ Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

~ People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. ~ Mary McCarthy

~ There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~ Chinese Proverb

~ Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

~ The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. ~ Robert Brault

~ Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

~ Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. ~ Laura Schlessinger

~ Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~ Roger Lewin

~ To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.~ Josh Billings

~ Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find? ~ Samuel Johnson

~ It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it. ~ Robert Brault

~ Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~ Charles R. Swindoll

~ Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.~ Marcelene Cox

~ Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. ~ Robert Brault

~ Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. ~ Ogden Nash

~ Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~ Robert Fulghum

~ The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. ~ M. Grundler

~ There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~ Walt Streightiff

~ Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. ~ Democritus

~ There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents. ~ Robert Brault

~ The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. ~ Mark Twain

~ There is not so much comfort in the having of children as there is sorrow in parting with them. ~ Thomas Fuller

~ The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. ~ Lane Olinghouse

~ There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. ~ Hodding Carter, Jr.

~ Juvenile delinquency would disappear if kids followed their parent's advice instead of their example. ~ Anonymous

~ The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~ Edward, Duke of Windsor

~ If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~ Abigail Van Buren

~ Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. ~ Sigmund Freud

~ Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. ~ Rudyard Kipling

~ Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. ~ Roger Rosenblatt

~ 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. ~ Joan Kerr

~ A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. ~ Thomas S. Szasz

~ The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. ~ Robert Brault

~ Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~ John Wilmot

~ Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

~ There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. ~ Frank A. Clark

~ Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. ~ Richard L. Evans

~ As parents, we guide by our unspoken example.  It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening. ~ Robert Brault

~ A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

~ Raising children is like making biscuits:  it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough. ~ E.W. Howe

~ What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.~ Sigmund Freud

~ If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. ~ George Bernard Shaw

~ If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.~ Mignon McLaughlin

~ Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~ Elizabeth Stone

~ 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. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

~ There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst. ~ George Bernard Shaw

~ Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. ~ Dr. Haim Ginott

~ We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.~ Stacia Tauscher

~ Children have more need of models than of critics. ~ Carolyn Coats

~ It's funny that those things your kids did that got on your nerves seem so cute when your grandchildren do them. ~ Anonymous

~ The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. ~ Denis Waitley

~ The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.~ Robert Brault

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

~ A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad. ~ John Andrew Holmes