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