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There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.
- children quotes by Benjamin Spock, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 1945
Do your kids a favor - don't have any.
- children quotes by Robert Orben
Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.
- children quotes by Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
- children quotes by Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969
Our genes make us immortal.
- children quotes by The Secret of Life, PBS
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
- children quotes by Phyllis Diller
A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.
- children quotes by Author Unknown
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
- children quotes by Christopher Morley
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
- children quotes by Author Unknown
The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five.
- children quotes by Jim Trelease, The Read-Aloud Handbook, 1985
Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.
- children quotes by François Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
- children quotes by Margaret Atwood
While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
- children quotes by Angela Schwindt
What is a home without children? Quiet.
- children quotes by Henny Youngman
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
- children quotes by Harold Hulbert
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
- children quotes by Edgar W. Howe
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
- children quotes by Frederick Douglass
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
- children quotes by Joan Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
- children quotes by Walt Streightiff
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
- children quotes by Bill Vaughan
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.
- children quotes by William Stafford
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
- children quotes by John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983
Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
- children quotes by Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
- children quotes by Fran Lebowitz
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
- children quotes by Pearl S. Buck
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- children quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
- children quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
- children quotes by Stacia Tauscher
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
- children quotes by Franklin P. Jones
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.
- children quotes by Thomas Szasz
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
- children quotes by Franklin P. Jones
Children make you want to start life over.
- children quotes by Muhammad Ali
Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it.
- children quotes by Not Your Average Dictionary
I am fond of children - except boys.
- children quotes by Lewis Carroll
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- children quotes by George Bernard Shaw
Like fruit, children are sweetest just before they turn bad.
- children quotes by Dena Groquet
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- children quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
- children quotes by Author Unknown
A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap.
- children quotes by Author Unknown
A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.
- children quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
- children quotes by Robert Benchley
It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
- children quotes by John W. Gardner and Francesca Gardner Reese
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
- children quotes by Robert Gallagher
Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.
- children quotes by Red Skelton
The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
- children quotes by Joe Houldsworth
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
- children quotes by Frank A. Clark
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