Children Quotes

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don’t crush them with some clever remark straight away.

I’m proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We’re all God’s children.

Rock is my child and my grandfather.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.