More quotations tagged with “children”
Never have children, only grandchildren.
—Groucho Marx
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
—Groucho Marx
We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.
—Fran Lebowitz
Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.
—Fran Lebowitz
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer