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Quotations
 | Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 24 likes |
 | 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. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 7 likes |
 | Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 7 likes |
 | How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 7 likes |
 | There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 7 likes |
 | Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. — Bill Cosby, 1937-, American comedian 5 likes |
| Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 5 likes |
 | Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 5 likes |
 | Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. — Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist 5 likes |
 | At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 5 likes |
 | Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 4 likes |
 | Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 4 likes |
 | The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 4 likes |
 | Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 4 likes |
 | Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 4 likes |
 | We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 4 likes |
 | All children, except one, grow up. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer ‐ Peter Pan 4 likes |
 | All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 4 likes |
 | Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 3 likes |
 | A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. — Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, American poet 3 likes |
 | To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 3 likes |
| I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time. — Bill Cosby, 1937-, American comedian 3 likes |
 | I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty. Call the child "innocence". The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 3 likes |
 | A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 2 likes |
 | Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 2 likes |
 | All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly. — Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987, French playwright 2 likes |
 | Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 2 likes |
 | At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes |
 | All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 2 likes |
 | If I were interested in children, I would be a godfather. Or a godmother… — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
 | Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 2 likes |
| I appeal to parents: never, never say, “Hurry up,” to a child. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 2 likes |
 | Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. — Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. — Frank A. Clark, 1911-1991, American cartoonist 1 likes |
 | For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. |
 | If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children. |
 | That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan. |
 | I have often noticed that children's lies are only an effort to simplify to put within the reach of adults a situation whose delicacy exceeds them. |
 | As long as there are hungry children, God does not exist! |
 | Children need role models rather than criticism. |
 | The mischief of children is seldom actuated by malice; that of grown-up people always is. |
 | A baby makes love stronger, the days shorter, the nights longer, savings smaller, and a home happier. — Anonymous |
 | Live your life the way you want your children to live theirs. |
 | All we can do for our children is to choose their mother well. |
 | Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. |
 | He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart. |
 | Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex. |
 | It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying. |
 | Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends. |
 | The “child” was an invention of the seventeenth century; he did not exist in, say, Shakespeare’s day. He had, up until that time, been merged in the adult world and there was nothing that could be called childhood in our sense. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | There is nothing more moving in the world than talking seriously to a child. |
 | Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all. |
 | A child is an angel dependent on man. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
| It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children. |
 | The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property. |
| My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. |
 | Αll children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
| A child, like your stomach, doesn’t need all you can afford to give it. |
Funny Quotes
 | We spend the first 12 months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 years teaching them to sit down and shut up. — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 7 likes |
| A two-year old is kind of like a blender, but you don’t have any top for it. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 4 likes |
| Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 4 likes |
| I still take the pill. I don't want any more grandchildren. — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 3 likes |
 | Some believe that genius is inherited. The others have no children. |
 | You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. |
Ancient Greek
 | Time is a child playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child. Χρόνος παις εστι παίζων πεττεύων. Παιδός η βασιλεία. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
 | God has endowed children with magic charm for the men. Δεινόν τι τέκνων φίλτρον έθηκεν θεός ανθρώποις. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 2 likes |
Proverbs
 | Small children don’t let you sleep; big children don’t let you rest. 3 likes |
 | Children are poor men's riches. 3 likes |
 | Children are a poor man’s wealth. — Danish Proverb 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | The Von Trapp children don't play. They march. — from the film The Sound of Music (1965) 3 likes |
