Children Quotes

18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors

Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children… — Florence King
The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can… — Fred Rogers
Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own. — John Mason Brown
While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up the house?' I… — Bill Cosby
I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then,… — Gore Vidal
Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died… — George W. Bush
Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into… — Anderson Cooper
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the… — Eugene V. Debs
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who… — Francis of Assisi
It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about their mouths are… — Charles Darwin
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real… — Charles Darwin
Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be… — Marian Wright Edelman
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the… — Kate Douglas Wiggin
I remember people saying, "Believe me, everything in your life is going to change..." And I thought, "Why? That's such a bourgeois way of thinking."… — Maggie Gyllenhaal
There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole… — Hugh Prather
That's exactly the way parents develop positive, successful kids. Don't look for the flaws, warts, and blemishes. Look for the gold, not for the dirt;… — Zig Ziglar
To raise positive kids, we as parents must identify the qualities necessary for success, convince our children that they have the potential for success, and… — Zig Ziglar
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength,… — Sissela Bok
I don't believe we own our children, they're their own souls who make their own choices, we just guide and support them. — Elle Macpherson
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future. — Maria Montessori
When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love… — Saint John Chrysostom
OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children. — Bil Keane

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