Children Quotes

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones
A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often. ~Author Unknown
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. ~Christopher Morley
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~Harold Hulbert
Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why, he does.- Chinese proverb
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity. - Edgar Z. Friedenberg
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. Anatole Broyard
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince", 1943
"The soul is healed by being with children." English proverb
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children." Mohandas Ghandi, political and spiritual leader in India
"No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure." Emma Goldman, author
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children." Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes
"A mother understands what a child does not say." Anonymous quotes
Children are the bridge to heaven" Persian Proverb quotes
It takes a village to raise a child. African proverb
Childhood: 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. Ambrose Bierce