65+ Quotes on Children and Parenting
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
A two-year old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
A child, like your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Children need models more than they need critics.
Be gentle with the young.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
When I approach a child He inspires in me two sentiments: Tenderness for what he is, And respect for what he may become.
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.
Children are poor men's riches.
Children are natural mimics. They act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.
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.
Children are a great comfort in your old age – and they hep you reach it faster, too.
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.
Little children are till the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterward makes him a manager of life.
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.
The soul is healed by being with children.
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
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.
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Children aren’t dogs; adults aren’t gods.
Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
A child is an uncut diamond.
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world. Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby.
The childless do not attain heaven.
Children have but little charity for one another's defects.
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 learn to smile from their parents.
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
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.
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
What's done to children, they will do to society.
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.
Children are all foreigners.
Children really brighten up a household – they never turn the lights off.
Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
Every child born, has innate goodness.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
All children have creative power.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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.
