Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. – Chinese Proverb
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. – English Proverb
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off. – English Proverb
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them. – Proverb
Children and drunks always speak the truth. – Proverb
A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap. – Proverb
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained. – Lyman Abbott
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
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
Most of the people who will walk behind me will be children so make the beat keep time with short steps. – Hans Christian Andersen
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
Childrens talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. – Maya Angelou
Its fun being a kid. – Bradford Arthur Angier
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
Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. – Eberhard Arnold
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
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that childs world and thus a world event. – Gaston Bachelard
There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. – James Baldwin
There is no sinner like a young saint. – Aphra Behn
