Quotes about Children

• We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.  
• You can learn many things from children.  How much patience you have, for instance.  
• In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?"  And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."
• I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring.  
• A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.  
• We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.  
• A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.  
• Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.  
• Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
• The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.  
• Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.  
• Children are one third of our population and all of our future.  
• Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.  
• Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.  
• You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing.  What!  Is it nothing to be happy?  Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long?  Never in his life will he be so busy again.  
• 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.  
• If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.  
• In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children.  The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted.  The result is unruly children and childish adults.  
• Children are unpredictable.  You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.  
• Children make you want to start life over.  
• Boy, n.:  a noise with dirt on it.  
• I am fond of children - except boys.  
• Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  
• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.  
• Children seldom misquote.  In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.  
• A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap.  
• A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.  
• In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.  
• The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.  
• Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.  
• Little girls are cute and small only to adults.  To one another they are not cute.  They are life-sized.  
• While we try to teach our children all about life,
• Our children teach us what life is all about.
• What is a home without children?  Quiet.  
• It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.  
• A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.  
• If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory.  
• There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.  
• Do your kids a favor - don't have any.  
• Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.  
• A rose can say "I love you", orchids can enthrall,
• but a weed bouquet in a chubby fist, yes, that says it all.
• Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.  
• Our genes make us immortal.  
• Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are.  Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are.  Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.  
• Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.  
• Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.  
• Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.
• The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.  
• There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.  
• If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.  
• It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.  
• If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.  
• The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.  
• Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it:  little men already.  
• There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.  There are seven million.