Children Quotes

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

John Bradshaw

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

Franklin P. Jones

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Ray L. Wilbur

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

G. K. Chesterton

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - which is the mostest? which is the leastest? They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

Pau (Pablo) Casals

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Anna Jameson

One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.

Forest Witcraft

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

Richard H. Dana

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Jean Baudrillard

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Lazarus Long

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Mary Lamb

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Dr. Jess Lair

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Leigh Hunt

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Carolyn Coats

Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

George Eliot

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

Christopher Hitchens

Eure Kinder sind nicht eure Kinder. - Sie sind die Söhne und Töchter der Sehnsucht des Lebens nach sich selber.

Kahlil Gibran