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Quotations About Children

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You will always be your child's favorite toy.
Vicki Lansky
Trouble-Free Travel with Children, 1991


What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P.D. James
Time to Be in Earnest


Children have more need of models than of critics.
Carolyn Coats
Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want to Hear


Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll
The Strong Family


Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin
The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary, 1911


Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather
The Business of Life, 1949


Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
Social Studies


It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Colette
My Mother's House, 1922


The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Edward, Duke of Windsor
Look, 5 March 1957


If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
C.G. Jung
Integration of the Personality, 1939


No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids.
Bill Cosby
Fatherhood, 1986


Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
Fatherhood, 1986


Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
Essays


Come little babe, come silly soul, Thy father's shame, thy mother's grief,
Nicholas Breton
Come, little babe, come, silly soul


Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
Toni Morrison
Beloved, 1987


It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Barbara Kingsolver
Animal Dreams


If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
Al Bernstein


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


If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.
Bob Golic


Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.
Chinese Proverb


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


Children make your life important.
Erma Bombeck


When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
Judith Levy


Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck


A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.
Unknown


Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal


If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
Pearl S. Buck


We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Christopher Morley


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


I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain.
Gene Perret


A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother's grief.
Proverbs 10:1


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


You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
Polish Proverb


Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso


Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
William Stafford


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


Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Bob Lemon


Spring weather is life a child's face, changing three times a day.
Chinese Proverb


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


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


Counsel men to discipline their children, but not to divorce their wives.
Chinese Proverb