child quotes

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.”

“The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.”

“There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.”

“Never have children, only grandchildren.”

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

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

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

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”

“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”

Child quotes - The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

“The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another. ”

“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.”

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ”

“Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. ”

“We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. ”

“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”

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

“It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.”

“Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.”

“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”

“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”

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

“What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children? ”

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

“You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.”

“I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.”

“A man growing old becomes a child again.”

“Children are the anchors of a mother's life. ”

“To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.”

“Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.”

“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”