Child quotes

“I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'” Richard Dawkins

“I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.” Richard Dawkins

“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.” Charles Darwin

“People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.” Ellen DeGeneres

“Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.” Ellen DeGeneres

“People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.” Ellen DeGeneres

“The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.” Bertrand Russell

“Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.” Bill Cosby

“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.” Bill Cosby

“You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.” Bill Cosby

“Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.” Bill Cosby

“A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.” Bill Cosby

“Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.” Bill Cosby

“Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.” Bill Cosby

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.” Bill Cosby

“As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'” Bill Cosby

“I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.” Bill Cosby

“My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.” Bill Cosby

“Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.” Bill Cosby

“I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.” Bill Cosby

“The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.” Bill Cosby

“We're not raising children with the love that we need to.” Bill Cosby

“What is an adult? A child blown up by age.” Simone de Beauvoir

“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.” William Blake

“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.” Francis Bacon

“Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.” Francis Bacon

“Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.” Francis Bacon

“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.” Francis Bacon

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.” Steven Spielberg