He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
~ Sorcha Macmurrough
A child's a plaything for an hour.
~ Mary Lamb
An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult.
~ Mason Cooley
Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why he does.
~ Chinese Proverb
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God the family angels devils witches goblins logic clarity punctuation and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity but leave to adults such childish allusions.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Juvenile appraisals of other juveniles make up in clarity what they lack in charity.
~ Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable.
~ Plato
Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
~ Igor Stravinsky
The great cathedral space which was childhood.
~ Virginia Woolf
A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent.
~ Benjamin Franklin
If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.
~ Goethe
What children expect from grownups is not to be 'understood' but only to be loved even though this love may be expressed clumsily or in sternness. Intimacy does not exist between generations - only trust.
~ Carl Zucker
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
~ Erik Erikson
William Blake really is important my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.
~ Maurice Sendak
Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.
~ Bible
When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
~ Joseph Joubert
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour for their curiosity their intolerance of shams the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
~ Aldous Huxley
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
~ Eleanor Farjeon
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders but they have never failed to imitate them.
~ James Baldwin
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.
~ Fran Lebowitz
All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.
~ Dan Pursuit
If a child lives with approval he learns to live with himself.
~ Dorothy Law Nolte
Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.
~ Robert Browning
What's done to children they will do to society.
~ Karl Menninger
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
~ Fred Astaire
Unlike grownups children have little need to deceive themselves.
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
~ Christopher Morley
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots the other wings.
~ Hodding Carter
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.
~ St. Francis Xavier
There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.
~ Benjamin Spock
Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Babies are such a nice way to start people.
~ Don Herold
Children need love especially when they do not deserve it.
~ Harold S. Hulbert
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
~ Rachel Carson
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived lives of the parents.
~ Carl Jung
Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.
~ John Holt
Through play, children experience a greater confidence in their bodies, surroundings and themselves. They become familiar with what they can and cannot do.
~ Iben Dissing Sandahl
Toys can be anything, children can play all morning with a stone and a plastic bucket. It is about how imaginative conductive and how many applicative possibilities toys offer.
Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.
~ Peter Diamandis
