Devotions on Children

7 Wonders of the World
A Childhood Friend
A Heart For Children
A Sandpiper to Bring You Joy...
A Special Teacher
Always Remember Those Who Serve You
Barney Can't Compete
Before Children / After Children
Child's Explanation of God
Daddy's Day
Explaining God
Fishers of Men
God is the sky
God's Loan
Grandpa's Table
I'm so sorry
Ice Cream For The Soul
Is It Worth The Risk?
Jesus' Footsteps
Kids Understand Love
Looking Through A Child's Eyes
My Resignation...
My Wish for My Grandchildren
Neglect
One rainy afternoon
Paid In Full
Peek A Boo
Pinewood Derby
Starfish
The alphabet
The Bible as your road map
The Cost of a Miracle
The Garden
The Mercedes
The miracle of a brother's song.
The Pearls
The Smell Of Rain
The Water
Whose Child Is This?

Quotations on Children

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
- Dick Cavett
*** Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller
*** As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
- Bill Cosby
*** My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.
- Bill Cosby
*** Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.
- Morley Safer
*** Smack your child every day. If you don't know why -- he does.
- Joey Adams
*** Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
- Russell Baker
*** I like children. Properly cooked.
- W. C. Fields
*** Children are a great comfort in your old age -- and they help you reach it faster, too.
- Lionel Kauffman
*** I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
- Robert Orben
*** Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- George Bernard Shaw
*** Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
- Mark Twain
*** I've noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell you the next stage is worse.
- Dave Barry
*** One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.
- Erma Bombeck
*** The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
- Quentin Crisp
*** My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
- Rita Rudner
*** I want to have children and I know my time is running out: I want to have them while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.
- Rita Rudner
*** Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
- Bill Cosby
*** Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
- Erma Bombeck
*** You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
- Dr. Theodore Seuss Geisel
*** My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
- Andrew Young
*** Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.
- William H. Macy
*** We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.
- Dorothy Height
*** Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
- John Wilmot
*** Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
- Socrates
*** I married your mother because I wanted children. Imagine my disappointment when you arrived. (Horse Feathers)
- Groucho Marx
*** You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it. (Horse Feathers)
- Groucho Marx
*** Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
- Samuel Butler
*** Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
- W. C. Fields
*** Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
*** Where children are, there is the golden age.
- Novalis
*** In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
- Benjamin Spock
*** There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
- Benjamin Spock
*** If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
- Maria Montessori
*** Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
- William Golding
*** Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
- Walt Disney
*** I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
- Tom Cruise
*** I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant
- Dean Martin
*** We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
- Roy L. Smith
*** Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
- Sam Levenson
*** When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.
- Jackie Vernon
*** Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
- Roseanne Barr
*** When my husband comes home, if the kids are still alive, I figure I've done my job.
- Roseanne Barr
*** Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
- Jane Smiley
*** Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
- Red Buttons
*** If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
- Pearl S. Buck
*** It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
- Ama Ata Aidoo
*** My first words were 'Seconds, please.' Most kids in kindergarten napped on a little rug. I had a braided 9 x 12.
- Louie Anderson
*** Large parties given to very young children . . . foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.
- Susanna Moodie
*** At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
- Ellen Key
*** I didn�t make Dale Jr. go be a racer. The kid wanted to be a racer. I�d just as soon him be a doctor, a preacher or whatever. I�m not sure I�d want him to be a lawyer.
- Dale Earnhardt
*** Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
- Bob Hope
*** The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
- Dorothy Parker
*** Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.
- Art Linkletter
*** Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
- Hans Christian Andersen
*** Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
- Aldous Huxley
*** When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children; even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.
- Brian Aldiss
*** When you are 12, you no longer need the parents.
- Roman Polanski
*** Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.
- Kate Douglas Wiggin
*** You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
- Barbara Bush
*** A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
- Bill Vaughan
*** Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
- Fran Lebowitz
*** Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
- Fran Lebowitz
*** Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?"
- Fran Lebowitz
*** Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
- Fran Lebowitz
*** I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible...and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
- Victor Borge
*** Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
- George Will
*** No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.
- Kirstie Alley
*** If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
- Norman Douglas
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