Quotes About Children

One of the great things about kids is they haven't heard a lot of the old jokes. You can get away with the corny ones.

Children know so little, they must learn quickly to imitate grown-ups whenever they feel unsure in a situation.

No more Latin, no more French, No more sitting on a hard school bench. No more dirty bread and butter, No more water from the gutter. No more maggots in the ham, No more yukky bread and jam. No more milk in dirty jugs, No more cabbage boiled with slugs. Now's the time to say hurray. We're eating the Infants today!

Francesca Simon

Children and fried food; the more you make, the better they come out.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other

MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other.

MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak.

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales

Does a red 'Radio Wagon' require an FCC license?

Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

PE teachers are usually very good with the kids because they don't muck about.

As with so many child-related problems, I blame the parents. Many, I'm afraid, are simply too lazy, too stupid or too uncaring to cook properly; it's much easier to shovel sugary, salty 'convenience food' into your kids from an early age. Food habits are built early in life and a poor start is impossible, or at least extremely difficult, to correct, once an addiction has set in.

It is not in the nature of things to understand one's children. Children are in a conspiracy against the adult world to get their ways, and vice versa.

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child, but the parent.

Merkwürdige Rasse, die Menschheit. Flog zum Mond und schändete kleine Kinder.

education and money. I go to church with the kids for the same reason Genie and I play our grandchildren classical music and litter the floors and chairs all over our home with open art books. Jack, age three, eats his lunch with a big Goya book propped in front of him asking for the

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

If I ever have children I will let them grow up like the weeds in our flower garden. Nobody worries about them and they grow so high and thick-while the roses in the beds grow poorer and poorer every summer.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.