Children Quotes

Never play peekaboo with a child on a long plane trip. There’s no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, “Look, it’s always gonna be me!”

Judicious mothers will always keep in mind, that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every child’s library.

I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.

Give a little to love a child, and you get a great deal back.

Wee Willie Winkle runs through the town, Upstairs and dounstairs, in his night-gown, Tirlin’ at the window, cryin’ at the lock, “Are the weans in their bed? for it’s now ten o’clock.”

A person’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.

She looks like something that would eat its young.

But now I’m six, I’m clever as clever So I think I’ll be six for ever and ever.

We adults forget what we do to children’s imaginations when we go through one of our national seizures on an issue. A dozen years ago, Hollywood fell in love with the environmental issue and put enviro messages in all their shows. The messages made their way into the funnies and magazines, and parents went to […]