Children Quotes - Page 2

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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.
- Cary Grant

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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow

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No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle aged children for signs of improvement.
- Florida Scott

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If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.
- Jacqueline Kennedy

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

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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
- Fran Lebowitz

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they’re going to catch you in next.
- Franklin P. Jones

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

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant and let the air out of the tires.
- Dorothy Parker

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
- James A. Baldwin

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

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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

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Small children give you headache; big children heartache.
- Russian Proverb

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It takes a village to raise a child.
- African proverb

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Kids spell love Time.
- John Crudele

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The children are the hope of the future.

Submitted by Genalin Sarcepuedes.
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
- George Eliot

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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
- Laura Schlessinger

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Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
- Phyllis Diller

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Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
- Bertrand Russell

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
- Katherine Whitehorn

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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
- Erik Erikson Dr.

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Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
- Ron Wild

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Lilly of the valley
bright and morning star
You have been so pally,
how wonderful you are!

Submitted by Albert A. Olofinnika.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
- Pearl S. Buck

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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.
- Margaret Atwood

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