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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
-Chinese Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
-English Proverb
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Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
-English Proverb
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There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
-Proverb
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Children and drunks always speak the truth.
-Proverb
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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
-Proverb
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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
-Lyman Abbott
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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
-John Adams
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Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.
-James Agee
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
-Louisa May Alcott
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children; even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.
-Brian W. Aldiss
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Most of the people who will walk behind me will be children so make the beat keep time with short steps.
-Hans Christian Andersen
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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
-Maya Angelou
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
-Maya Angelou
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It's fun being a kid.
-Bradford Arthur Angier
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
-Aristotle
(attributed)
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
-Eberhard Arnold
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
-W. H. Auden
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Toys tossed on the floor
Hand prints on the wall
Slamming of the door
And footsteps down the hall
Boxes made into towers
Covers turned into tents
Voices get a lil' louder
Guide lines get a lil' bent
Boxes now go untouched
Covers in a folded pile
Silence never was so much
Guide lines never been n' awhile
Did we waste our time a way
We once had back then
Never taking time to play
To 'oft we walked right past them
Now they're grown and gone
The house stands still and neat
Only memories left to carry on
Oh, how our hearts do often weep
Would we change time if we could?
Would we play a bigger part?
Did we get too wrapped up in the world?
For now we're left with just
Memories of the heart.
-Gloria Babb
MEMORIES OF THE HEART
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
-Gaston Bachelard
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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
-James Baldwin
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
-James Baldwin
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You see much more of your children once they leave home.
-Lucille Ball
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
-Jean Baudrillard
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There is no sinner like a young saint.
-Aphra Behn
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Books about Children
