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| The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television. | | Sophia Loren | |
| The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children | | Clarence Darrow | |
| The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. | | Plato | |
| The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born | | Dean Inge | |
| The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. | | Albert Einstein | |
| The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame | | Bible | |
| The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun | | Jean Paul Richter | |
| The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. | | Confucius | |
| There are two things parents should give their children: roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly). | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. | | Frank A. Clark | |
| This transformation in kids - from flashing dragonflies, so to say, to sticky water-surface worms slowly slipping downstream - is noticed with pride by society and with mortification by God ... | | William Saroyan | |
| To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. | | Josh Billings | |
| To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know | | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | |
| We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort | | Christopher Morley | |
| We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn. | | Alfred Adler | |
| We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. | | Phyllis Diller | |
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| What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. | | Sigmund Freud | |
| When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. | | Stephen Wright | |
