Kids are great. Without them, there would be no adults.
Whether you’re expecting a baby, or you just need some help understanding the more youthful among us, I’m sure you’ll enjoy this great collection of quotes.
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“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
“We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.-Harry Edwards
“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.-John Ruskin
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.-Angela Schwindt
“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.-Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Children make you want to start life over.-Muhammad Ali
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.-Margaret Mead
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.-Franklin P. Jones
“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.-Mark Twain
“Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind.-Queen Rania of Jordan
“The greatest thing a father can do for his children, is to love their mother.-Anjaneth Garcia Untalan
“Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.-Marcelene Cox
“Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.-Dillon Burroughs
“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.-Lady Bird Johnson
“Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.-Harold Hulbert
“Children are the proof we’ve been here… they are the best thing and the most impossible thing.-Allison Pearson
“Baby eagles can never soar under their family’s wing.-Liu Yang
“The soul is healed by being with children.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.-Abigail Van Buren
“I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.-Sherman Alexie
“In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it’s not perfect, that’s okay, there are a lot more coming along.-Antonin Scalia
“A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn’t act that way very often.-Unknown
“When a new baby is expected, the mother has 9 months to prepare the family and the kitchen for her departure!-Nursing Mothers Association of Australia
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.-Frederick Douglass
“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.Carl Sandburg
“Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn’t developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don’t expect to see.-Douglas Adams
“Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.-Edward Morris
“Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.-Maya Angelou
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.-Oscar Wilde
“I learn things from my kids constantly. Most of their knowledge comes from Snapple caps.-Jimmy Kimmel
“Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away.-Heather Gudenkauf
“If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.-Pearl S. Buck
“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they’re going.-P.J. O’Rourke
“The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.-Bill Cosby
“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.-George Eliot
