Children Quotes
+36Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
- Anonymous
+29Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
- Anonymous
+25Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
- Anonymous
+24Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
- Anonymous
+24You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
- Anonymous
+23One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.
- Anonymous
+18Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
- Anonymous
+16Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
- Anonymous
+14In America there are two classes of travel first class, and with children.
- Anonymous
+14Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Anonymous
+13Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
- Anonymous
+13No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle aged children for signs of improvement.
- Anonymous
+12Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.
- Anonymous
+11It takes a village to raise a child.
- Anonymous
+10Do your kids a favor don’t have any.
- Anonymous
+10I am fond of children except boys
- Anonymous
+10You starve your children not by denying them food but through lack of discipline.
+7If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
- Haim Ginott
+6The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- Theodore Hesburgh
+5A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+5Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.
- William Stafford
+5We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
- Stacia Tauscher
+4Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.
- Zig Ziglar
+3Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
- Harold Hulbert
+3Like fruit, children are sweetest just before they turn bad.
- Dena Groquet
+3If you want children to keep their feet on the ground put some responsibility on their shoulders.
- Abigail Van Buren
+2I am fond of children except boys.
- Lewis Carroll
+2Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
- John W. Whitehead
+1What is a home without children? Quiet.
- Henny Youngman
+1Children make you want to start life over.
- Muhammad Ali
+1Children are our most valuable natural resource.
- Herbert Hoover
+1We’ve had bad luck with our kids they’ve all grown up.
- Christopher Morley
+1A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
- George Santayana
+1Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.
- François Duc
+1If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
A. P. Gouthey
+1Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
+1A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
- Groucho Marx
+1I’ve been to war. I’ve raised twins. If I had a choice, I’d rather go to war.
- George W. Bush
+1The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids.
- Jill Bensley
+1Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
- Heraclitus
