Children Quotes

Many parents are finding out that a pat on the back helps develop character – if given often enough, early enough, and low enough.

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

I suspect that the child plucks its first flower with an insight into its beauty and significance which the subsequent botanist never retains.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!