[ child Quotes ]



Showing search results for Child Quotes - 251 quotes about child - Dictionary Quotes
251 quotes

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
Childhood
Louise Bogan

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1051 votes

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Children
Erma Bombeck

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 964 votes

The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.
The future
Napoleon Bonaparte

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 858 votes

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
Children
Christian Nevell Bovee

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 933 votes

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
Parents and Parenting
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1386 votes

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Children
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 980 votes

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
Education
Patrick Buchanan

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1031 votes

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.
Love
Buddha

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 963 votes

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
Marriage
Barbara Bush

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 995 votes

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
Parents and Parenting
Barbara Bush

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 916 votes

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Learning
Robert Byrne

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1059 votes

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
Home
Lord Byron

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 839 votes

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Parents and Parenting
Miguel De Cervantes

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 892 votes

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Children
Alexander Chase

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 929 votes

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
Age and Aging
Lydia M. Child

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 918 votes

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

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1293 votes

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
Parents and Parenting
Chinese Proverb

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 814 votes

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Childhood
Deepak Chopra

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 924 votes

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Children
Marcus T. Cicero

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 749 votes

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Gifts
Marcus T. Cicero

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 875 votes

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
Parents and Parenting
Frank A. Clark

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 940 votes

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Parents and Parenting
Frank A. Clark

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 902 votes

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

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 866 votes

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Prayer
Alexander Cockburn

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 911 votes

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.
Enemies
Claudette Colbert

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1005 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun