Children Quotes and Sayings


There’s only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Proverb

Children are the bridge to heaven.
Persian Proverb

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experiences of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
Peter Ustinov

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
Rabindranath Tagore

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
Dr. Haim Ginott

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Stacia Tauscher

Anybody who hates children and dogs can’t be all bad.
W. C. Fields

While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt

It takes a village to raise a child.
African proverb

A child deserves the maximum respect; if you ever have something disgraceful in mind, don’t ignore your son’s tender years.
Juvenal

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
Randall Jarrell

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Harold Hulbert

Having no children had been a kind of choice up to the moment when, from a choice, it became a sadness.
Bernardo Bertolucci

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
Anonymous

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Winston Churchill

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.
James Baldwin

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John J. Plomp

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round.
David Lodge

Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
Cyril Connolly

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Robert Benchley

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Annie Sullivan

Two things should be cut: the second act and the child’s throat.
Noel Coward

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