Children - Quotes

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny. - Ben Stein

Small children give you a headache, big children a heartache. - Russian Proverb

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life. - Henry Ward Beecher

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. - M. Grundler

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system. - Quentin

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. - Socrates

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents. - Christopher Paolini

The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It ... is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refuelling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be. - Marianne E. Neifert

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft. - Philip Wylie

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. - Billy Graham

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. - John Lubbock

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be. - Fred G. Gosman

The older I get, the more I marvel at the wisdom of children. - David Morgan

The soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoevsky