CHILDREN QUOTES
quotations about children
Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 22:6
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
attributed, The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes
I personally think it all begins with the children. Someone ought to rewrite those fairy tales. Well, you know, show Hansel and Gretel for what they really are: a couple of pushy kids going around eating sweet old ladies' houses.
BERTHA
"The Witches are Out", Bewitched
Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
YODA
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
KINGSLEY AMIS
One Fat Englishman
Every child has the capacity to be everything.
DORIS LESSING
Shikasta
To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Not having children makes less work--but it makes a quiet house.
SUSAN GLASPELL
Trifles
Children are the great gamble. From the moment they are born, our helplessness increases. Instead of being ours to mould and shape after our best knowledge and endeavour, they are themselves.
JOSEPHINE HART
Damage
Children's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.
MONTAIGNE
Essays
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
CHARLES BUXTON
Notes of Thought
I learn things from my kids constantly. Most of their knowledge comes from Snapple caps.
JIMMY KIMMEL
TV Guide
Stay a child while you can be a child.
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Into the Woods
Only where children gather
is there any real chance of fun.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN
The Atlantic, 1960
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Stray Birds
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
BILL COSBY
Fatherhood
We're supposed to see hope in children. But right now, all I see are little bundles of uncertainty. And germs.
DEXTER MORGAN
"Finding Freebo", Dexter
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
On Literature
Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
JESUS
Mark 10:14
The parent must not give in to his desire to try to create the child he would like to have, but rather help the child to develop--in his own good time--to the fullest, into what he wishes to be and can be.
BRUNO BETTELHEIM
A Good Enough Parent