Quotes About Children & Childhood – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Samuel Richardson

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

Ogden Nash

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

Hesiod

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?

Kate Millett

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Charles Lamb

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

Leon Kass

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Jean de la Bruyere

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

John Nelson Darby

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

Franklin P. Jones

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.

Mike Fitzpatrick

Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, very special love.

Sarah Palin

American families be warned, if the White House doesn't send your jobs overseas, they'll send your kids.

Joe Baca

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Nelson Mandela

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

Zane Grey

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Michel de Montaigne

All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.

Joe Baca

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

Honore de Balzac

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Marian Wright Edelman

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

Mark Haddon

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Walter Scott

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Jeremy Taylor

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

Thornton Wilder

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

Nicholas D. Kristof

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

W. Somerset Maugham

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Bertrand Russell

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

William Godwin

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Ogden Nash

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.