Children Quotes

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Did you ever know any grown-ups who got married and then later they got a divorce? – Well, it is something people can talk about, and it’s something important. I know a little boy and a little girl whose mother and father got divorced, and those children cried and cried. And you know why? Well, […]

You’re a good example of why some animals eat their young.

The best preparation for being a happy and useful man or woman is to live fully as a child.

See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails? (to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo)

No Columbus, no Marco Polo has ever seen stranger and more fascinating and thoroughly absorbing sights than the child that learns to perceive, to taste, to smell, to touch, to hear and see, and to use his body, his senses, and his mind. No wonder that the child shows an insatiable curiosity. He has the […]

If you live with a cripple, you will learn to limp.

One half of the children born die before their eighth year. This is nature’s law; why try to contradict it?

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

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.