Quotes About Children

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Oscar Wilde

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?" "They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer. "And what is hell? Can you tell me that?" "A pit full of fire." "And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?" "No, sir." "What must you do to avoid it?" I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.

Charlotte Brontë

A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children

Markus Zusak

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

Jack Handey

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

C.S. Lewis

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.