Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
- Dr. Haim Ginott quotes
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow
The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
- Pablo Casals quotes
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
- Walt Disney
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
- Groucho Marx
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
- Phyllis Diller
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
- Sophocles
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
- George Santayana
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas
- Paula Poundstone quotes
Children need models rather than critics.
- Joseph Joubert
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
- Robert Gallagher
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
- Walt Streightiff
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
- Khalil Gibran
Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.
- Cary Grant
