Children Quotes

We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.

Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.

I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I’m not enjoying it, I will leave football.

If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.

It would be very sad if children had no memories before those of school. What they need most is the love and attention of their mother.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.

A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?’ she asked. ‘To believe that your children will be just like you.