Quotes about children
143 quotes from 103 people
You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.
Robert Frost1874–1963Interview in Writers at Work (1963)The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
Robert Frost1874–1963Interview in Writers at Work (1963)Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Greene1904–1991The Power and the Glory (1940), Pt. I, ch. 1
Thích Nhất Hạnh1926–2022Being Peace (2005)
Kamala Harrisborn 1964Twitter 2020; as quoted by Singh, Rishika “Coconuts for Kamala Harris: Why the Internet is memeing the US VP amid speculations of her candidacy”. The Indian Express. (2024-07-07).
Alice Hoffmanborn 1952Practical Magic (1995)
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Good Sense without God (Le Bon Sens, 1772), sect. 30Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to two children—?
Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
