child quotes

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ”

— Aristotle

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ”

— Aristotle

“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.”

— Mark Twain

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.”

— Marie Curie

“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”

— Marie Curie

“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.”

— Bruce Lee

“Touch a scientist and you touch a child.”

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Agatha Christie

“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.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Agatha Christie

“Never have children, only grandchildren.”

— Gore Vidal

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“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. ”

— Marilyn Monroe

“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.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Phyllis Diller

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

— Phyllis Diller

“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. ”

— Phyllis Diller

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

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Honore de Balzac

“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.”

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Honore de Balzac

“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.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Aldous Huxley

child quotes

“Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.”

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ”

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ”

“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.”

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”

“A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.”

“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”

“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.”

“Touch a scientist and you touch a child.”

“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.”

“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.”