Children Quote by Samuel Butler

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

— Maria Edgeworth

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please…

— Erma Bombeck

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

— Oscar Wilde

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in…

— Francois Fenelon

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring…

— Hedy Lamarr

“Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It seems to me that the most fundamental mistake most parents make with children is to expect them to be grateful. Children are never…

— Billie Burke

“a good deal of unkindness and selfishness on the part of parents towards children is not generally followed by ill consequences to the parents…

— Samuel Butler

“One of the biggest - and I would guess most common - mistakes parents make is to transfer their own childhood shit onto their…

— Sarah Silverman

I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that…

— Beth Moore

Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run…

— H. David Burton

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they…

— Oscar Wilde