Children Quotes

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn’t enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.

Tell the children the truth.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

What maintains one Vice would bring up two Children.

They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind—yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child’s one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told any one how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. Also, badly-treated children have a clear notion of what they are likely to get if they betray the secrets of a prison-house before they are clear of it.