Children Quotes

He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue, or mischief.

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.

Anybody who hates dogs and children can’t be all bad.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.