Children Quotes

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Her child was like a load that held her down, and yet like a hand that pulled her to her feet.

A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: “I’m praying, but I can’t think of exactly the right words, so I’m just saying all the letters, and […]

Many parents are finding out that a pat on the back helps develop character – if given often enough, early enough, and low enough.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

I suspect that the child plucks its first flower with an insight into its beauty and significance which the subsequent botanist never retains.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.