Children Quotes

We need to teach our children that they can’t cheat. There is no way to pull it off: You can’t lie to life. You may deceive your teacher about what you know, but you can’t deceive life. What you haven’t learned leaves a hole that nothing but that learning can fill and no amount of […]

It’s a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Children desperately need to know – and to hear in ways they understand and remember – that they’re loved and valued by mom and dad.

Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy and you save a multiplication table.

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.

The society that kneels before the commercial altar of childhood in the adorable forms of Strawberry Shortcake, Peter Pan, and Annie is the same society that murders its children, rapes them, starves them, poisons them, and hates them to death.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Nowadays books are no longer saying that children must be good, they are saying they must be well-adjusted.