Children Quotes and Sayings - Page 3
All children have creative power.
Brenda Ueland
I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.
Pamela Glenconner
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.
Christopher Morley
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray
Children and fools speak true.
Proverb
Children and fools cannot lie.
Proverb
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O’Rourke
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children learn to creep ere they can learn to go.
Proverb
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
Proverb
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
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Pearl S. Buck
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin
Children are the keys of paradise.
Eric Hoffer
You will always be your child’s favorite toy.
Vicki Lansky
Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is, To have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Anonymous
The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
Joe Houldsworth
Children make you want to start life over.
Muhammad Ali
Our children change us… whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The easiest way to teach children the value of money is to borrow some from them.
Anonymous
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Garrison Keillor
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Colette
Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang up there pajamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves and others — and whether they see everyday chores as related to how we treat this planet.
Eda LeShan
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