CHILDREN QUOTES VI

quotations about children

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.

WALT DISNEY

Deeds Rather Than Words


If we would amend the world, we should mend our selves; and teach our children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude


Few are fit to train monkeys, yet not one of us but thinks himself competent to bring up children.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways.

RUSSELL A. BARKLEY

attributed, Dad's Wit and Wisdom: Quips and Quotes for Fantastic Fathers


Children are natural mimics. They act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.

GRENVILLE KLEISER

Dictionary of Proverbs


Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

KEVIN LEMAN

The Birth Order Book


Oh, kids are great! You can teach them to hate what you hate!

HOMER SIMPSON

The Simpsons


Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

PHYLLIS DILLER

Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse


Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done.

HARRIET LERNER

Twitter post, May 17, 2014


In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.

GEORGE ELIOT

Silas Marner


A child is a priest of the ordinary, fulfilling a sacred office that absolutely no one else can fill. The simplest gesture, the ephemeral movement, the commonest object all become precious beyond words when touched, noticed, lived by one's own dear child.

MIKE MASON

The Mystery of Children


Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods


Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him.

KEVIN LEMAN

Have a New Kid by Friday


It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

CHARLES DICKENS

Master Humphrey's Clock


The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It ... is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be.

MARIANNE E. NEIFERT

Dr. Mom's Parenting Guide


Children ... are unripe and imperfect; their virtues, therefore, are to be considered not merely as relative to their actual state, but principally in reference to that maturity and perfection to which nature has destined them.

ARISTOTLE

Politics


Children, no matter how gifted, can't see far into the future, you know. To them, a year is almost a lifetime, and telling them that things will be fine when they grow up does no good at all.

JOHN SAUL

Shadows


The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial. As we walk the streets and see below us those delightful bulbous heads, three times too big for the body, which mark these human mushrooms, we ought always primarily to remember that within every one of these heads there is a new universe, as new as it was on the seventh day of creation. In each of those orbs there is a new system of stars, new grass, new cities, a new sea.

G. K. CHESTERTON

"A Defence of Baby-Worship,", The Defendant


Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.

PAUL REISER

Good Housekeeping, 1997