Quotes
Quotes about Children
Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." -Maria Montessori, Italian educator (1870-1952)
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Adults are obsolete children.
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Adults are obsolete children.
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
To understand your parents' love, bear your own children.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
By trying to make things easier for their children parents can make things much harder for them.
Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
Did you know that the worldwide food shortage that threatens up to five hundred million children could be alleviated at the cost of only one day, only ONE day, of modern warfare.
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
