Children quotes, verses and sayings

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Children are all foreigners.

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

Be gentle with the young.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

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