Children Quotes and Sayings - Page 2



All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

Only those in the last stage of disease could believe that children are true judges of character.
W. H. Auden

Like fruit, children are sweetest just before they turn bad.
Dena Groquet

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

A child’s a plaything for an hour.
Mary Lamb

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

What is a home without children? Quiet.
Henny Youngman

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn’t act that way very often.
Anonymous

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.
Franklin P. Jones

You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
Bismarck

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.
Chinese proverb

Woe to the land that’s govern’d by a child!
William Shakespeare

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
John W. Whitehead

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant — and let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parker

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.
Anonymous

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Marilyn French

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Maria Montessori

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun.
Jean Paul Richter

Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.
Herbert Ward

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Michael Levine

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

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

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.
Bill Vaughan

A Daughter is a Little Girl who grows up to be a Friend
Anonymous

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso

The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction?
Marian Wright Edelman

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