Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
Genius can be recognized by its childish simplicity.
It is important to sensitise children about animal behaviour as it will help develop a healthy curiosity towards nature.
You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
A father maintains ten children better than ten children one father.
A pet child has many names.
What the child says, he has heard at home.
When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.
You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.
I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
It's a bad child who does not take advice.
Knowledge acquired as a child is more lasting than an engraving on stone.
Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.
It could keep parents away from their children if they think it is going to land them in a lock-up somewhere.
Granted, my childhood wasn't conventional, but it was full of love.
My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.
It used to be that children had time to look at clouds and imagine.
Children of domestic violence, of course, suffer terrible consequences.
I was the second-youngest child in a family that took up the better part of an entire pew at our Baptist church.
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
I don't accept bad manners, so all my grandchildren are very well behaved, just like my kids.
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
Contrary to their father's genius, Shakespeare's children were illiterate.
I want my children to attend inclusive schools where diversity is respected and acknowledged as a sign of strength.
I don't want my children to feel the same sense of failure I did growing up because they're not good at passing tests.
We just cannot drive the children away, on humanitarian grounds.
