Quotes about children

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Robert Benchley

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
Walt Streightiff

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
Joan Kerr

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
Edgar W. Howe

Any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.
Red Skelton

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.
Mignon McLaughlin

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.
Thomas Szasz

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.
Benjamin Spock

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Stacia Tauscher