A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.
Jerry Seinfeld
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Children are natural mimics. They act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.
Dictionary of Proverbs
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
Anatole Broyard
Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they hep you reach it faster, too.
Lionel Kauffman
A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Arthur Miller
Little children are till the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
Richard L. Evans
That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterward makes him a manager of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Stacia Tauscher
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
John Bradshaw
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
Dr. Haim Ginott
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.
Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.
A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad.
