Children Quotes

Children Quotes:

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
~ Stacia Tauscher

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~ Franklin P. Jones

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.
~ Author Unknown

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
~ Christopher Morley

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
~ Author Unknown

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

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
~ Bill Vaughan

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
~ William Stafford

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
~ John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983

Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
~ Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981

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

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
~ Pearl S. Buck

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
~ Rabindranath Tagore

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.
~ Thomas Szasz

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