Top 25 Children Quotations
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
-- Franklin P. Adams"A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine."
-- Anonymous"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
-- Aristotle"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
--James Baldwin"The best inheritance a person can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day "
--O. A. Battista"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."
-- Bill Cosby"There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it."
-- Monta Crane"The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system."
-- Quentin Crewe"Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say."
-- Wayne Dyer"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
-- Albert Einstein"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson"Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak."
-- Benjamin Franklin"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
-- Theodore M. Hesburgh"I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation Where they will not be judged by the color of their skin But by the content of their character."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr."The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy."
-- Sam Levenson"Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it."
-- Harold Hulbert"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters."
-- Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis"Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven."
-- Robert Pollok"Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them."
-- Jonas Salk"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
-- Angela Schwindt"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."
--James Thurber"Child rearing myth #1: Labor ends when the baby is born."
-- Unknown"Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said."
--Unknown"Children are the sum of what mothers contribute to their lives. "
--Unknown"When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world."
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