Quotes about Children by Famous Persons

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)

 

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

 

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.
- Anonymous

 

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
- Charles Wadsworth

 

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
- Anonymous

 

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
- Anonymous

 

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

 

Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
- Miriam Robbins

 

"Children need models rather than critics." -- Joseph Joubert

 

"Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow their children to come back home." -- Bill Cosby

 

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on." -- Carl Sandburg

 

"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." -- Dr. Who

 

"You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return." -- -Arthur Miller

 

"All children are gifted. Some just open their presents later than others." -- unknown

 

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn." -- Eric Hoffer

 

"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children." -- Clarence S. Darrow

 

"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

"Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's in trouble." -- Dennis Fakes

 

"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children." -- Edward, Duke of Windsor, quoted in Look

 

"Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death." -- Francis Bacon, Essays, 7, `Of Parents and Children'