Quotes About Children

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
- Norman Douglas

Children need models more than they need critics.
- Joseph Joubert

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
- Frederick Douglass

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
- Francis Bacon

We cannot form children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
- Goethe

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
- David Fyfe

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
- Randall Jarrell

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is something that could be better changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
- Michael Levine

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
- Josh Billings

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

- Samuel Johnson