CHILDREN

Related Subjects: Age, Babies, Boy, Family, Innocence, Parents, Posterity, Youth

1. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.—Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:11
   

2. The dreams of childhood—its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.—DICKENS, Hard Times
   

3. The doll is one of the most imperious necessities, and at the same time one of the most charming instincts of female childhood.—VICTOR HuGo, Les Miserables
   

4. The childhood shows the man,
   As morning shows the day.—MILTON, Paradise Regained
   

5. Sweet childish days, that were as long
   As twenty days are now.—WORDSWORTH, To a Butterfly
   

6. That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones.—Bible, Psalms 144:12
   

7. Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it.—Bible, Proverbs 22:6
   

8. Golf . . . is a trifling thing beside the privilege of taking a small son to the zoo and letting him see his first lion, his first tiger and, best of all, his first elephant. Probably he will think that they are part of your own handiwork turned out for his pleas­ure. .. . Cortes on his lonely peak in Darien was a pigmy discoverer beside the child eating his first spoonful of ice-cream.—HEYWOOD BROUN, Holding a Baby
   

9. If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weeds.—LUTHER BURBANK
   

10. Child of the pure, unclouded brow
    And dreaming eyes of wonder!
    Though time be fleet and I and thou
    Are half a life asunder,
    Thy loving smile will surely hail
    The love-gift of a fairy-tale.—LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-Glass
    

11. I shall never marry; and why should you speak of my having children? I am just as likely to give birth to a Nero as to an Augustus.—QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN
    

12. No one knows what will be the fate of the child he begets, or the child she bears. The fate of the child is the last thing they consider.—CLARENCE DARROW

13. In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.—DICKENS, Great Expectations
    

14. Who is there whom bright and agreeable children do not attract to play and creep and prattle with them?—EPICTETUS, Discourses
    

15. If Nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.—LAURENCE HOUSMAN
    

16. Thou straggler into loving arms,
    Young climber-up of knees.—MARY LAMB, A Child
    

17. Children are what the mothers are.
    No fondest father's fondest care
    Can fashion so the infant heart.—W. S. LANDOR, Children
    

18. Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.—WILLIAM PENN, Fruits of Solitude
    

19. The truth is children are not half-men and half-women, or half-boys and half-girls. They are a race of beings to themselves. And it is in the power of this curious race of beings to plunge into the secret of life more deeply than all other mortals.—J. C. POWYS, Autobiography
    

20. Children do not play ordinary conventional games unless they are encouraged to do so by the older boys and girls. Children's "games", strictly speaking, are not games at all. They are the child's inmost reality! They are the child's life-illusion. They turn back to them with a sigh of relief from the impertinent intrusive activities of grown-up people.—J. C. POWYS, Autobiography
    

21. He that has no children knows not what is love.—Proverb
    

22. Late children are early orphans.—Proverb
    

23. A man among children will be long a child, a child among men will be soon a man.—Proverb
    

24. Little children should be seer and not heard.—Proverb
    

25. Many children, and little bread, is a painful pleasure.—Proverb
    

26. Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts.—Proverb
    

27. Children are poor men's riches.—Proverb
    

28. Children increase the cares of life, but mitigate the remembrance of death.—Proverb
    

29. Hold your hands off other folks' bairns, till you get some of your own.—Proverb
    

30. Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.—RUSKIN, The Crown of Wild Olive
    

31. A mother's pride, a father's joy.—SCOTT, Rokeby
    

32. The very staff of my age, my very prop.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

33. How pleasant is Saturday night,
    When I've tried all the week to be good,
    And not spoke a word that was bad,
    And obliged every one that I could.—NANCY D. SPROAT, Lullabies for Children

34. A child should always say what's true
    And speak when he is spoken to,
    And behave mannerly at table;
    At least as far as he is able.—STEVENSON, The Whole Duty of Children
    

35. No sweeter thing than children's ways and wiles,
    Surely, we say, can gladden eyes and ears
    Yet sometimes sweeter than their words or smiles
    Are even their tears.—SWINBURNE, A Child's Pity
    

36. I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child.—TAGORE, The Crescent Moon
    

37. When I bring you coloured toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colours on clouds, on water, and why flowers are painted in tints.—TAGORE,
    The Crescent Moon
    

38. Monday's child is fair of face,
    Tuesday's child is full of grace,
    Wednesday's child is loving and giving,
    Thursday's child works hard for a living.
    Friday's child is full of woe,
    Saturday's child has far to go,
    But the child that is born on the Sabbath-day
    Is brave and bonny, and good and gay.—Traditional
    

39. The child is father of the man.—WORDSWORTH, My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold