Children Quotes

The only way on God’s earth you will ever solve the problem of reaching the masses is by getting hold of the Children. You get boys and girls started right and the devil will hang crepe on his door.

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, “Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.”

Children are excellent physiognomists and soon discover their real friends. Luttrell calls them all lunatics and so in fact they are. What is childhood but a series of happy delusions?

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

A lot of us who came of age in the 1960’s are very wary of authority. But you can’t be your child’s friend you have to turn into a parent.

If I could get to the highest place in Athens, I would raise my voice and say, “What mean ye, fellow citizens, that ye turn every stone to scrape wealth together, and take so little care of your children to whom ye must one day relinquish it all!”

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

There’s a time when you have to explain to your children why they’re born, and it’s a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.