Children Quotes

It is ominous for the future of a child when the discipline he receives is based on the emotional needs of the disciplinarian rather than on any consideration of the child’s own needs.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

And thus it will go on, as long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

They call it cutting the apron strings. It feels more like amputating body parts.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.

I think it’s the most special blessing of all: to like our children as companions.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.