Sayings about Children
Who takes the child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart. ~ Danish Proverb
The children eat the fruit and the father sleeps on the peel. ~ Cypriot Proverb
You can do anything with children if you only play with them. ~German Proverb
A child without a mother is like a fish in shallow water. ~ Myanmar Proverb
Children are buttonholes that hold their parents together. ~ Arabian Proverb
The ones that matter the most are the children. ~ Native American Proverb
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children make a home. ~ Irish Proverb
There’s only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~ Traditional Proverb
What the child says, he has heard at home. ~ Nigerian Proverb
To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself. ~ Chinese Proverb
Children have more need of models than critics. ~ French Proverb
Children will tell you what they do, men what they think and older people what they have seen and heard. ~ Gypsy Proverb
He who has children will never die of starvation. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Bad children? Guilty parents! ~ Myanmar Proverb
When God gives a child, he also gives the clothing. ~ Estonian Proverb
Small children won’t let you sleep, bigger children won’t let you live. ~ Yiddish Proverb
One father can feed seven children, but seven children cannot feed one father. ~ Cameroonian Proverb
Children have a hair of their father. ~ Belgian Proverbs
He who has a lot of money and no children is not rich; he who has many children and no money is not a pauper. ~ Chinese Proverb
Children are the reward of life. ~ Congolese Proverb
Children are a poor man’s wealth. ~ Danish Proverb
What children hear their parents say by the fireside, they repeat in the highway. ~ Spanish Proverb
Even children of the same mother look different. ~ Korean Proverb
The child who loves freedom is the first victim of it. ~ Bambara Proverb
Whoever has no children has no light in his eyes. ~Iranian Proverb
Don’t give a child a name until after it is born. ~ Netherlands Antillean Proverb
If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness. ~ Chinese Proverb
Small children give you headache; big children heartache. ~ Russian Proverb
The child hates the one who gives him all he wants. ~ African Proverb
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off. ~ English Proverb
Children grow up, with or without parents. ~ Japanese Proverb
A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child. ~ Chinese Proverb
The jewel of the air is the sun; the jewel of the house is the child. ~ Chinese Proverb
Children’s love is like water in a basket. ~ Argentine Proverbs
With a child in the house, all corners all full. ~ Yiddish Proverb
A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap. ~ Danish Proverb
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~ English Proverbs
Late children are early orphans. ~ Spanish Proverb
Each child brings his own blessing into the world. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Give your children too much freedom and you lose your own. ~ Russian Proverb
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~ Chinese Proverb
When a rich man wants children, he gets dollars, when a poor man wants dollars, he gets children. ~ Arabian Proverb
When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents. ~ Japanese Proverbs
A house without a dog, a cat, or a little child is a house without joy or laughter. ~ Scottish Proverbs
More precious than our children are the children of our children. ~ Egyptian Proverbs
The adult looks to deeds, the child to love. ~ Hindustani Proverb
A child is a bridge to heaven. ~ Iranian Proverbs
Children who get everything they ask for seldom succeed in life. ~ Filipino Proverbs
When the child falls the mother weeps; when the mother falls the child laughs. ~ Rwandan Proverb
Better the child cry, than the mother sigh. ~ Danish Proverbs
A house without children is a graveyard. ~ Indian Proverbs
Hold your children with your heart but teach them with your hands. ~ Russian Proverbs
If a man leaves little children behind him, it is as if he did not die. ~ Moroccan Proverbs
Children of the same mother do not always agree. ~ Nigerian Proverb
Quotations about Children
It takes three to make a child. ~ EE Cummings
Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too. ~ Author Unknown
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built. ~ Dr. James C. Dobson
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. ~Charles Dickens,
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. ~ Isadora Duncan
Children are poor men’s riches. ~ John Ray (1627-1705, British naturalist)
Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said. ~ Author Unknown
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. ~Franklin P. Jones
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hugs can do great amounts of good — especially for children. ~ Princess Diana
A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap. ~ Author Unknown
What is done to children, they will do to society. ~ Karl A. Menninger
The world today is bad… because people don’t talk to the children in the way that the children need. ~ Pablo Casals
You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. ~ John Plomp
Children and drunks always speak the truth. ~ Author Unknown
It is dangerous to confuse children with angels. ~ David Fyfe
Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. ~Giacomo Leopardi
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Let the child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.~ Benjamin Franklin
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 weed. ~ Luther Burbank
Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them? ~ Epictetus
Where children are, there is the golden age. ~ Novalis
Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions. ~ Saki
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. ~ Isadora Duncan
A child miseducated is a child lost. ~ John F. Kennedy
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~Walt Streightiff
Each child is an adventure into a better life — an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Children are very precious. We are blessed to have them, but we are blessed even more if we take care of them and see to their needs. ~ Delores Bennett
My best creation is my children. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg
Children need models rather than critics. ~ Joseph Joubert
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man. ~ Ovid
Children always turn to the light. ~ David Hare
The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. ~Joe Houldsworth
Adults are obsolete children. ~ Dr. Seuss
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~ Charles Swindoll
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. ~ Stacia Tauscher
What is a home without children? Quiet. ~ Henny Youngman
A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~Author Unknown
I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring. ~ Liz Armbruster
Before you beat a child, be sure you are not the cause of the offense. ~ Austin O’Malley
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. ~ Maya Angelou
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. ~ Phyllis Diller
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~ Neil Postman
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. ~ Karl Kraus
Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say. ~ Wayne Dyer
The child is the father of the man. ~ William Wordsworth
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. ~ Robert Gallagher
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. ~ Henry Fielding
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them. ~ Samuel Rutherford
Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children. ~ J. D. Salinger
Children make you want to start life over. ~ Muhammad Ali
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
We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open. ~ Harry Edwards
The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present. ~ John Ruskin
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ~ Harry S. Truman
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them. ~ Author Unknown
What you don’t know takes a lot of explaining to the children. ~ Author Unknown
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. ~ Author Unknown
Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. ~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~ Lazarus Long
We dont see the passage of time so much in ourselves as in our children. ~ Hayley Foster
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ~ James Baldwin
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life. ~ John Bradshaw
For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft. ~ Thomas J. Cottle
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires. ~ Dorothy Parker
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. ~ Mel Lazarus
You see much more of your children once they leave home. ~ Lucille Ball
We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them. ~ Dr. Jess Lair
Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up. ~ Pablo Picasso
A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in. ~ Adolph Meyer
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. ~ John Ruskin
Children need love, especially when they don’t deserve it. ~ Harold Hulbert
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~ Roger Lewin
Children are the keys of paradise. ~ Richard Henry Stoddard (
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
With children we must mix gentleness with firmness. They must not always have their own way, but they must not always be thwarted. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself. ~ Author Unknown
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that. ~ Charles Buxton
Children make your life important. ~ Erma Bombeck
