Children Quotes and Sayings

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S Truman

A young child is, indeed, a true scientist, just one big question mark. What? Why? How? I never cease to marvel at the recurring miracle of growth, to be fascinated by the mystery and wonder of this brave enthusiasm.
Victoria Wagner

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother’s age.
Dr Benjamin Spock

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.
Hodding Carter

Making the decision to have a child - it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
Elizabeth Stone

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck

Our genes make us immortal.
The Secret of Life

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.
Plato

Kids haven’t changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.
Penelope Leach

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
Robert Gallagher

Do your kids a favor - don’t have any.
Robert Orben

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they’ll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already. ~Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caracteres

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
Giacomo Leopardi and Zibaldone Scelto

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou

The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.
Jim Trelease

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you’ve left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.
Golda Meir

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
Indira Gandhi

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller

The nice thing about having relatives’ kids around is that they go home.
Cliff Richard

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Pope John XXIII

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, ‘Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.’
Mrs Lillian Carter

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.
Katherine Whitehorn

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.
Jean Kerr

Alas! That such affected tricks
Should flourish in a child of six!
Hilaire Belloc

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.
Thomas Szasz

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
Mignon McLaughlin

It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
Alexandre Dumas

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. Jean Jacques Rousseau