Children Quotes

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.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

A child should always say what’s true, And speak when he is spoken to; And behave mannerly at table, At least as far as he is able.

Parents who rob their children of limits hurt the development of something deep within their child: their capacity to care, to understand, and to show concern. From adversity, from limits, from “no’s,” and from expectations, children develop greater depths of empathy, compassion, and understanding. Without these experiences, they develop a one-dimensional view of the world […]