Children / Childhood Quotes for Scrapbooks
Children are poor men’s riches.
--English proverb
Of all nature’s gifts to the human race,
what is sweeter to a man than his children?
--Marcus Tullius Cicero
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
--Albert Einstein
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
--Bruce Barton
That’s the trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget.
They don’t remember what it’s like to be twelve years old.
--Walt Disney
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
--Albert Einstein
A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
--Chinese proverb
Teenagers are people who act like babies if they’re not treated like adults.
--MAD Magazine
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders,
but they have never failed to imitate them.
--James Baldwin
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the
impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
--Pearl S. Buck
To understand your parents’ love, you must raise children yourself.
--Chinese proverb
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
--Albert Einstein
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
--Ron Wild
The parents of a teenager understand why some animals eat their young!
--Unknown
The laughter of a child is the light of a house.
--Unknown
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
What one loves in childhood stays in your heart forever.
--Mary Jo Puthey
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that
allow their children to come back home.
--Bill Cosby
Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.
--Ed Asner
There is always a moment in childhood when
the door opens and lets the future in.
--Graham Green
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six
dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
--Bill Vaughan
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually
repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.
--Unknown
While we try to teach our children all about life,
our children teach us what life is all about.
--Angela Schwindt
Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you
need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
--Richard Zera
Our children are here to stay, but our babies and toddlers and preschoolers are
gone as fast as they can grow up.
--St. Clair Adams Sullivan
Reminders of the carefree days, building castles in the sand.
--D. Morgan
He hath gladdened the earth with little children.
--Mary Howitt
--It takes a village to raise a child.
African proverb
Making the decision to have a child—it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.
--Elizabeth Stowe
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children;
now I have six children and no theories.
--John Wilmont
There was a never a child so lovely but his mother
was glad to get him to sleep.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never underestimate the power of acting young, silly and crazy
--Camy Baker
Children change much like the seasons and
its best to capture the innocence of both
--Unknown
Oh the places you’ll go…
--Dr. Seuss
