Quotes I Love About Children

It takes a village to raise a child. - African proverb

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. - Bill Cosby

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. - Chinese proverb

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. - Clarence Darrow

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids. - Jill Bensley

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. - John J. Plomp

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

Wealth and children are the adornment of life. - Koran

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was, that they escaped teething. - Mark Twain

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. - P. J. O'Rourke

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. - Theodore Hesburgh