Children Quotes

102 quotations about Children
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean De La Bruyere · Children
We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
Dr. Jess Lair · Children
A child is fed with milk and praise.
Mary Lamb · Children
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
Mel Lazarus · Children
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin · Children
Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin · Children
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Lazarus Long · Children
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Children
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx · Children
Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Margaret Mead · Children
What is done to children, they will do to society.
Karl A. Menninger · Children
We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
Christopher Morley · Children
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
Robert Moses · Children
Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
Clark Moustakas · Children
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash · Children
Where children are, there is the golden age.
Novalis · Children
Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
Austin O'Malley · Children
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid · Children
Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
Pablo Picasso · Children
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John Plomp · Children
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch · Children
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin · Children
Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.
Robert Pollok · Children
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope · Children
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
Proverb · Children

Authors on Children

Maya Angelou Bradford Arthur Angier Gaston Bachelard Lucille Ball Aphra Behn Erma Bombeck Christian Nevell Bovee Elizabeth Barrett Browning Al Capp Alexander Chase Chinese Proverb Winston Churchill Marcus T. Cicero Carolyn Coats Sidonie Gabrielle Colette E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings Madame Marie Curie Richard H. Dana Rodney Dangerfield Princess of Wales Diana