Children Quotes

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.

We’ve had bad luck with children they’ve all grown up.

It takes a village to raise a child. The village is Washington. You are the child.

The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work.

We call a child’s mind “small” simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

The real magic wand is the child’s own mind.