Children Quote by Mrs. Henry Wood

The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were…

— Eugene O'Neill

“What shouldn't be heard by little ears shouldn't be said by big mouths!”

— Hermine B. Horman

“No child, still less a foetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It’s an adult device, a…

— Ian McEwan

“My first lessons in life were not easy ones. At age 6, I learned to keep secrets and at age 10, I learned no…

— Kelly Skeete

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the…

— Gordie Howe

“Listen earnestly to anything [your children] want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they…

— Catherine M. Wallace

“I’ve alway been struck by how little adults understand children, even their own fathers and mothers. Nothing should be kept from children on the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Children close their ears to advice but open their eyes to example..

— Anonymous

Children may close their ears to advice, but they keep their eyes open to example.

— Sarah Moores

“Small children will talk to anyone, once the guard of shyness has fallen, and they have, like the elderly, a sense of immediacy, a…

— Susan Hill

Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to…

— Jane Pauley

“Young children often lie about their world, knowing instinctively that its truth is something adults no longer understand.”

— Peter Maughan