Children Quotes

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.

St. Francis Xavier

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

Fran Lebowitz

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Franklin P. Jones

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Giacomo Leopardi

Children love to walk in their parent's shoes; make sure they have strong "souls".

Vanese Henley

Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content.

Robertson Davies

What children hear at home soon flies abroad

Thomas Fuller

Children really brighten up a household - they never turn the lights off

Ralph Bus

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope and peace

James Russell Lowell

Children are poor men's riches

English Proverb

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship

Laura Schlessinger

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

James Arthur Baldwin

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Dr. Haim Ginott

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dr. James C. Dobson

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

Roger Rosenblatt

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

Michael Levine

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold Hulbert

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away

Nancy Mitford

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for

Ogden Nash

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun

Jean Paul Richter

Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

Oscar Wilde

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