Children Quotes

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.

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.

I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

Whoso hath left debt and children, let him come to me; I am their patron, I will discharge his debt and befriend his children.

I was in the back yard, and my then-4-year-old brown-haired brown-eyed daughter came running down the hill and into my arms. I decided in that moment that one trillion brown-eyed little girls running down one trillion grassy hills throughout the galaxy would be an enhancement of the state of the universe, not a diminishment of […]

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.