Quotes about children
143 quotes from 103 people
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Broadcast (21 March 1943), quoted in The Times (22 March 1943), p. 6
George D. Prentice1802–1870Prenticeana (1860)Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
Carl Sandburg1878–1967Remembrance Rock (1948), Ch. 2, p. 7Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
Andy Warhol1928–1987The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 6: WorkAsk your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.
Fran Lebowitzborn 1950Social Studies (1981), “Parental Guidance”.
Carl Jung1875–1961The Integration of the Personality (1939), p. 285There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
