Children Quotes

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. (Ephesians 6:1)

Let children support their parents or be imprisoned.

The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are tyrants, not servants of the households. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize over their […]

The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. (Isaiah 11:6-7)

I am poppa to no male nor no female child dat no court could prove udderwise, and certainly, nothin’ likes a skinnypated, sissipated runt like you. Children! Children! Kids! Eugggh! Children! Give ’em everything they want, and waddaya gets in return? Nuthin. Nuthin! Nuthin! but heartache, heartache, sadness, and misery, and a bad time once […]

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

I see the mind of a five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

We have named it Cain. She caught it while I was up country trapping; caught it in the timber a couple of miles from our dug-out – or it might have been four, she isn’t certain which. It resembles us in some ways, and may be a relation. That is what she thinks, but this […]

Childhood is short, maturity is forever. (“Calvin and Hobbes”)