children Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about children.
“I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age.”
- Mick Jagger
“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”
- Honore de Balzac
“There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.”
- Elizabeth Bowen
“You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.”
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”
- Jesse Jackson
“I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.”
- Diane von Furstenberg
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
- Pope John XXIII
“I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.”
- Robert Carlyle
“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.”
- Francis Bacon
“I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.”
- Jo Brand