He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue, or mischief.
Children Quotes
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight.
Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time.
Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
Never teach your child to be cunning for you may be certain that you will be one of the first victims of his shrewdness.
When I was born my mother was terribly disappointed. Not that she wanted a girl – she wanted a divorce.
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
