Quotes on Children/Childhood

Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.
(Libby Gelman-Waxner)

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now completely frappe!"
(Graham)

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
(Herbert Hoover)

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
(Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II)

Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
(Mary Alice Messenger)

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
(Nancy Mitford)

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
(Robert Orben)

Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
(Miriam Robbins)

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
(Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker)

Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
(Jerry Seinfeld)

Youth is wasted on the young.
(George Bernard Shaw)

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
(Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show)

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
(Socrates)

Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
(Mark Twain)

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
(Peter Ustinov)










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