Children Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”
– Joyce Maynard

“We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”
– Phyllis Diller

“We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.”
– Roy L. Smith

“Children make your life important.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Tell the children the truth.”
– Bob Marley

“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”
– William Shakespeare

“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.”
– Sitting Bull

“Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.”
– Clint Eastwood

“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.”
– Susan B. Anthony

“All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.”
– Franklin P. Jones

“Never raise your hand to your children – it leaves your midsection unprotected.”
– Robert Orben

“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.”
– Mark Twain

“I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.”
– Gloria Steinem

“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”
– Gloria Steinem

“When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they’re crazy, because ‘sacrifice’ infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.”
– Chris Rock

“Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”
– Russell Baker

“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”
– Margaret Mead

“And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I’d see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.”
– Michael Jackson

“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It’s a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.”
– Fred Melamed

“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”
– Fred Rogers

“No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.”
– Erma Bombeck

“I don’t think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.”
– Hillary Clinton

“After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.”
– Shirley Jones

“A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel

“I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.”
– Geronimo

“We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.”
– Charles Spurgeon

“I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

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