“Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.”
“Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.”
“The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.”
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
“Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.”
“But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!”
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
“Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.”
“Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.”
“You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.”
“We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.”
“Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.”
“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.”
“So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.”
“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.”
“Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.”
“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”
“A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.”
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”
“It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.”
“When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”
“You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.”
“What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?”
“Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.”
“The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.”
“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”
“Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?”
“Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.”