Child quotes

“Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“ Our children change us... whether they live or not.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” Heraclitus

“Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.” Francis Xavier

“ Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.” Robert Anson Heinlein

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Plato

“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.” Mark Twain

“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.” Mother Teresa

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.” Benjamin Franklin

“A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.” Marie Curie

“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.” Marie Curie

“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.” Bruce Lee

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” Oscar Wilde

“Touch a scientist and you touch a child.” Ray Bradbury

“One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.” Agatha Christie

“The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.” Agatha Christie

“There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.” Agatha Christie

“Never have children, only grandchildren.” Gore Vidal

“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” Pablo Picasso

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.” Pablo Picasso

“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.” Sigmund Freud

“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.” Sigmund Freud

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.” Sigmund Freud

“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.” Ludwig van Beethoven

“The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.” Marilyn Monroe

“I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.” Phyllis Diller

“Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.” Phyllis Diller

“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