15,393 Quotes About Children

A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony.

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

Be TENDER with the YOUNG---Be SYMPATHETIC with the AGED.

School children, who have enjoyed reading a romance or a detective thriller or a novel about terror and conquest, make the invariable mistake of studying literature in the college. They make the mistake of learning theory in place of art; they acquire impediments in their own enjoyment of the books by allowing a set of theories to govern their own reading.

ففي الحضانة أطفال بلا آباء، وفي دور المسنين آباء بلا أطفال، وكلاهما المنتج “الرائع” للحضارة والمثل الاعلى في كل طوبيا

During childhood life is like dancing and later life becomes wrestling.

The Child is the Alpha and the Omega of a parent’s happiness.

It’s a fallacy to think that children are happy. They’re not, they’re unhappy. I never suffered so much as I did when I was a child.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.