Children Quotes

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.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

It is ominous for the future of a child when the discipline he receives is based on the emotional needs of the disciplinarian rather than on any consideration of the child’s own needs.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

And thus it will go on, as long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.