Children Quotes :
Every adult needs a child to teach; it’s the way adults learn.
Frank Clark
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born.
George Bernard Shaw
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
JOHN J. PLOMP
I take my children everywhere. Unfortunately, they find a way home.
Robert Orben
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they’re fresh and unformed.
Dorothy Gilman
Here all mankind is equal; rich and poor alike, they love their children.
Euripides
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
Ogden Nash
When they think that their children are naïve.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
William Phelps
Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
Vaughn Monroe
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
Children are a great comfort in your old age—and they help you reach it faster, too.
Lionel Kauffman
I wouldn’t give you a nickel for another child, but I wouldn’t take a million for the ones l’ve got.
Anonymous
Walt Streightiff
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
John W. Gardner
It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
J. H. Oldham
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The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Peter Ustinov
Children need admiration rather than affection.
Celia Green
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
Is there any delight as great as the child’s discovering ability?
Doris Lessing
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
G. K. Chesterton
Our children will hate us too, y’know.
John Lennon
Charlie “T” Jones
The greatest aid to adult education is children.
Children are without pity.
Jean de La Fontaine
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children are all foreigners.
William Wordsworth
The child is father of the man.
My best creation is my children.
Diane von Fürstenberg
English proverb
Children are a poor man’s riches.
A child is the root of the heart.
Carolina Maria de Jesus
Chinese proverb
Children’s mouths speak the truth.
Some children are wiser than adults.
Lama Thubten Yeshe
So many children don’t know how to pray!
Pope Francis
Life’s aspirations come
Rabindranath Tagore
in the guise of children.
Kids are always the only future the human race has.
William Saroyan
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
Sophocles
The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart.
Mencius
Anyone who hates children and animals can’t be all bad.
W. C. Fields
Joan Ganz Cooney
Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.
Lady Bird Johnson
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back.
John Ruskin
Fran Lebowitz
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.
John Jay
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
Anonymous
Euripides
A wretched child is one who does not return his parents’ care.
Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon
Babies are always more trouble than you thought—and more wonderful.
Charles Osgood
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
William Shakespeare
To have a thankless child.