Quotes and proverbs about children and childhood.
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A burnt child dreads the fire.
A bad experience can be a good lesson to avoid danger or problems.A child without a mother is like a fish in shallow water.
A child's sense of reality vs. fantasy can be a bit blurred at the preschool age.
Eva AmurriA perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.
Dave BarryAll grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it.
Antoine De Saint-ExuperyAnyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
W.C. FieldsChildhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
William GoldingChildhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
MiltonChildren and fools tell the truth.
Children are a poor man's riches.
Children have a right not to have their minds addled by nonsense.
Nicholas HumphreyChildren make your life important.
Erma BombeckChildren must be taught how to think, not what to think.
Margaret MeadChildren need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Harold HulbertChildren need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.
Kay Redfield JamisonChildren see magic because they look for it.
Christopher MooreDo not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
Richard DawkinsDo not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.
PlatoDon't grow up, its a trap.
(unknown author)Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Robert A. HeinleinDon't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
Rabindranath TagoreEvery child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo PicassoFaith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
Richard DawkinsFruits of the same tree have different tastes; children of the same mother have various qualities.
Give an apple to the little ones, a book to the old.
He who plants a coconut tree plants vessels and clothing, food and drink, a habitation for himself and a heritage for his children.
I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.
Mick JaggerI have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that.
Pippi LongstockingIf you want real peace in the world, start with children.
Mahatma GandhiIf you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Albert EinsteinIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouIt rots the sense in the head!
It kills imagination dead!
It clogs and clutters up the mind!
It makes a child so dull and blind
he can no longer understand
a fantasy, a fairyland!
His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
His powers of thinking rust and freeze!
He cannot think--he only sees!
Roald DahlIt kills imagination dead!
It clogs and clutters up the mind!
It makes a child so dull and blind
he can no longer understand
a fantasy, a fairyland!
His brain becomes as soft as cheese!
His powers of thinking rust and freeze!
He cannot think--he only sees!
Source: Poem: Television
It seems ridiculous to me that people are so afraid that their children are going to miss a month of learning. How about using this month to teach them how to plant, cook, do taxes, basic first aid, handle stress, critical thinking, etc. Not all learning is done in a classroom.
Mohamad SafaListen to them - the children of the night. What music they make!
Bram StokerSource: Dracula
This refers to the singing of wolves.
Little children, headache; big children, heartache.
Little children, little problems; big children, big problems.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
George Bernard ShawOne must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOur most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. KennedyParents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
Christy TurlingtonProverbs are the children of experience.
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
Richard DawkinsSunt pueri pueri, puerilia tractant. (Children are children, children do childish things)
P. StrikOur Latin teacher would say this when we were misbehaving in class.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar WildeThe child is father of the man.
William WordsworthThe childhood shows the man as morning shows the day.
John MiltonThe children eat the fruit and the father sleeps on the peel.
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
Anthony TrollopeThe more stupid the child the dearer it is.