Famous Children Quotes
Children need models rather than critics.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Do not say, ‘It is morning,’ and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.
I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.