Famous Children Quotes
I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
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.
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
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.
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.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.
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.
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children – these are the only investments that never fail.
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.
Children need models rather than critics.
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
