Children Quotes - Page 10

• Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sex

  Notebook, 1894

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

  Epictetus

  Play, Society, Creeps

  19 Copy quote

• Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

  Anthony Powell

  Disappointment, Years, Parent

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement”, University of Chicago Press

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

  Carl Sandburg

  God, Baby, Positive Thinking

  Remembrance Rock ch. 2 (1948)

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Sports, Fun, Husband

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.48, BookBaby

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Liars, Selfish

  53 Copy quote

• Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

  Alex Haley

  Life, Grandmother, Grandpa

  Reader's Digest, 1987.

  82 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.124, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fathers Day, Kings

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 4, l. [312]

  69 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

  Thomas Szasz

  Parent, Today, Adults

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

  Lydia Sigourney

  Speak, Educate, Knows

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1838). “Letters to mothers”, p.19

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

  John W. Gardner

  Age, Six, Easy

  10 Copy quote

• For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention.

  Riane Eisler

  Women, Law, Wife

  71 Copy quote

• When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

  Chet Atkins

  Funny, Music, Dad

  70 Copy quote

• If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

  Robert Breault

  Legs, Pants, Schedules

  7 Copy quote

• We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

  Jess Lair

  Frustration, Goal, Trying

  14 Copy quote

• Children need models rather than critics.

  Joseph Joubert

  Positive, Education, Wrestling

  28 Copy quote

• A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Education, Years, Political

  14 Copy quote

• Unicef wants to encourage a sense of stability for a child.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Want, Stability, Unicef

  10 Copy quote

• A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Laughter, Crazy

  11 Copy quote

• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Change, Family

  Vom Werden der Pers"nlichkeit (On the Development of Personality, 1932) in Gesammelte Werke (1972) vol. 17, p. 194

  85 Copy quote

  Show source

• I quickly found that the American church is a difficult place to fit in if you want to live out New Testament Christianity. The goals of American Christianity are often a nice marriage, children who don't swear, and good church attendance. Taking the words of Christ literally, and seriously, is rarely considered. That's for the 'radicals' who are 'unbalanced' and who go 'overboard.' Most of us want a balanced life we can control, that is safe, and that does not involve suffering.

  Francis Chan

  Nice, Goal, Suffering

  33 Copy quote

• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Daughter, Dream

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

  628 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

  James Dobson

  Teenager, Real, Gun

  James C. Dobson (1997). “Solid Answers: America's Foremost Family Counselor Responds to Tough Questions Facing Today's Families”, Tyndale House Pub

  87 Copy quote

  Show source

• Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Two, Childhood

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source