| Author |
Quotes |
| Benjamin Franklin | Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak. |
| Bible | When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. |
| Bible | In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. |
| Bible | A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. |
| Bible | Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. |
| Bible | Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. |
| Bible | Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. |
| Eugene Field | Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe-- Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child. |
| Richard Henry Dana | Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children. |
| Robert Burton | steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings. |
| Robert Burton | Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. |
| Thomas Gray | Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play; No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day. |
| Unattributed Author | The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking. |
| - Page 1 Next |