Children Quotes

I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

When people come up to me and say, “I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto,” or, “I saw your first goal in the NHL,” that triggers memories. But I don’t sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, “You know, one year I got 92 goals.”

Honestly, I’m not going to lie. I was a good kid.

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ’s particular love’s sake!

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men’s native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.