Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
—Bruce Barton
Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.
—Daniel Raeburn
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
—Dick Cavett
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
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
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
—Groucho Marx
Babies are cool, until you've done everything to do with 'em and you get bored. That's why T.V. shows about babies don't last more than a year.
—John Gray
My mother loved children—she would have given anything if I had been one.
—Juvenal
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
—Lawana Blackwell
I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.
—Leo J. Burke
Be gentle with the young.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
—Unknown