Quotes about children
143 quotes from 103 people
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962From article “In Defense of Curiosity” appearing in The Saturday Evening Post 208 (August 24, 1935); 8-9, 64-66.I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Response when a dignitary asked if he could better control his daughter, as quoted in Hail to the Chiefs : My Life and Times with Six Presidents (1970) by Ruth Shick Montgomery, and TIME magazine (3 March 1980)
Patrick Rothfussborn 1973The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 12, “Puzzle Pieces Fitting” (p. 88)Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
I don’t call her my middle child, I call her my center child, because the world revolves around her.
Bob Saget1956–2022Bob Saget: That Ain’t Right (2007)
Saki1870–1916Reginald (1904)
Carl Sandburg1878–1967Remembrance Rock (1948), Ch. 2, p. 7Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860The World as Will and Representation, vol. 2, ch. 31 (“On Genius”)
Dr. Seuss1904–1991On writing for adults, as quoted in Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel (1997) by Thomas Fensch, p. 96- Dr. Seuss1904–1991Statement about children, as quoted in Enter, Conversing (1962) by Clifton Fadiman, p. 108
- Dr. Seuss1904–1991Horton Hears a Who! (1954)
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950“Rungs of the Ladder”, BBC Radio broadcast (11 July 1932)
