Quotes about Children

ROGER LEVIN
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

BILL VAUGHAN
A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

THEODORE HESBURGH
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Eda LeShan
Becoming responsible adults is no longer a matter of whether children hang up their pyjamas or put dirty towels in the hamper, but whether they care about themselves and others -- and whether they see everyday chores as related to how we treat this planet.

Hodding Carter:
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.

James Baldwin
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Jane Nelson
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?

MARK TWAIN
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

MICHAEL LEVINE
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Thich Nhat Hanh
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.