Clever phrases about children. Wise sayings about loving children

There are no children, there are people.
Janusz Korczak

Most of us become parents before we stop being children.
Minion McLaughlin

Our children should choose husbands and wives for us.
Valery Afonchenko

Deciding to have a child is a serious matter. This means deciding to let your heart walk outside your body from now on and forever.
Elizabeth Stone

Children immediately and naturally become accustomed to happiness, because by their very nature they are joy and happiness.
Victor Hugo

Gifted children are the treasure of the nation. It's hard to disagree with this statement. Indeed, children are our future. You can agree or disagree with other statements by reading short quotes about children with meaning. This collection features wise and beautiful phrases great people, their view on the topic of childhood. These are reflections famous people both past and present. Quotes and aphorisms come across both serious, philosophical and witty. But each of these statements gives reason to think.

Life for a child is one huge experiment.
Alfred Adler

Every child is partly a genius, and every genius is partly a child.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Every person is always someone's child.
Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais

When a child grows up, he ceases to understand many things.
Alexander Kulich

He who was not a child will never become an adult.
Charlie Chaplin

Without children it would be impossible to love humanity so much.
Fedor Dostoevsky

Save the tears of your children so that they can shed them at your grave.
Pythagoras

Unlike talent, stupidity does not rest on children.
Valentin Domil

Mutual love held together by children.
Menander

All the children in the world cry in the same language.
Leonid Leonov

What is childhood, if you look at it? Formally, the period when little man tries to learn to understand the world around him, tries to learn the rules of the surrounding society. That is, this is a time of knowledge and discovery. The most interesting stage of a person's life. Quotes about children prove this.

Look at my children. My former freshness is alive in them. They are the justification for my old age.
William Shakespeare

You cannot scare off children with harshness; they only cannot stand lies.
Lev Tolstoy

First a person develops mentally and physically, then sexually. And with the birth of children, the mental period begins again.
Vladimir Borisov

Children are fruits that do not see roots.
Gennady Malkin

Children are always ready for a miracle.
Olga Muravyova

Children listen most attentively when they are not being spoken to.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Children amuse themselves with one activity or another even when they are doing nothing.
Cicero

Children should live in a world of beauty, games, fairy tales, music, drawing, fantasy, and creativity.
Vasily Sukhomlinsky

Children are innocent - and therefore their conscience sleeps in them; they don't know what it is - remorse.
Valentin Grudeev

Children who are not loved become adults who cannot love.
Pearl Buck

There are so many quotes and reflections about childhood that it seems that nothing new can be invented. But perhaps among the phrases presented you will find something new for yourself.

If children grew up in accordance with our expectations, we would only produce geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe

If the child does not feel that your house belongs to him too, he will make the street his home.
Nadine de Rothschild

Life is short, but a person lives it again in his children.
Anatole France

Woman better than men understands children, but a man bigger baby than a woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you have children, you have nothing else.
Kathleen Norris

Love does not necessarily mean children, but children do mean love.
Valery Afonchenko

Don’t waste a person’s time by telling him how smart your children are, because he wants to tell you about how smart his children are.
Edgar Watson Hovey

It's joyful when your children are a step forward compared to you, it's bitter when they're a step back.
Ilya Shevelev

The most observant people are children. Then - artists.
Vasily Shukshin

Children are the living flowers of the earth, Maxim Gorky once said. It was from this phrase that it arose famous quote: Children are the flowers of life. And in order for flowers to grow well, you need the appropriate environment and atmosphere, that is, a family. We invite you to read

Quotes about children: what Russian famous and great people say

“Preaching from the pulpit, captivating from the platform, teaching from the pulpit is much easier than raising one child.” (Alexander Herzen)

“Now children do not play, but study. They all study and study and will never begin to live.” (Alexander Green)

“Children are holy and pure. You can’t make them the plaything of your mood.” (Anton Chekhov)

“Pamper your children, gentlemen, because you don’t know what awaits them in the future.” (Vladimir Nabokov)

“Be kind, and let your child understand that you are kind (on his own, without prompting), and let him remember that you were kind, then, believe me. You will fulfill your duty to him for the rest of his life, because you will directly teach him that good is good. And at the same time, all his life he will remember your image with great respect, and perhaps even with tenderness. And if you did a lot of bad things, that is, at least frivolous, painful and even funny, then he will undoubtedly forgive you, sooner or later, in the memory of you all your bad things for the sake of the good things that he will remember. Know too that there is nothing more you can do for him...” (Fedor Dostoevsky)

“Parents don’t realize how much harm they cause their children when they use their parental authority to force their beliefs and views on life.” (Felix Dzerzhinsky)

“All the children in the world cry in the same language.” (Leonid Leonov)

“If people say bad things about your children, that means they say bad things about you.” (Vasily Sukhomlinsky)

“Children need to be pampered - then they grow up to be real robbers!” (Evgeny Schwartz)

“How often do we throw around lofty words without thinking about them. Here is a doldonim: children are happiness, children are joy, children are light in the window! But children are also our torment! Our eternal concern! Children are our judgment on the world, our mirror, in which our conscience, intelligence, honesty, neatness are all visible. Children can shut us down, but we can never shut them down.” (Victor Astafiev)

Quotes about children: foreign famous and great people say

“Let the little children come and do not hinder them from coming to Me, for to such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” (Jesus Christ)

“The wildest foals make the best horses, if only they are properly raised and ridden.” (Plutarch)

“You will never be able to create wise men if you kill naughty children.”

“If only parents could imagine how annoying they are to their children!” (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

“Children immediately and naturally become accustomed to happiness, because by their very nature they are joy and happiness.”

“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy and just as unthinkable as a woman without children.” (Victor Hugo)

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”

“Children begin with love for their parents. As they grow up, they begin to judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.” (Oscar Wilde)

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.” (Bernard Show)

“Every child is to some extent a genius and every genius is to some extent a child.” (Schopenhauer)

“Teach your children to be silent. They will learn to speak on their own.” (Benjamin Franklin)

“It’s clear as an orange: old people were never children.” (Ray Bradbury)

“Children, especially girls, should always be told that they are beautiful and that everyone loves them. If I have a daughter, I will always tell her that she is beautiful, I will comb her hair and I will not leave her alone for a minute.” (Marilyn Monroe)

An ideal world would be one in which there would be no need to have children—people would simply find them in cabbage patches.

We hate it when children make noise. But if they subside, that’s even worse. The fat is in the fire…

Children can only be compared to money: no matter how big they grow, we still perceive them as small.

A little daughter is a great happiness. Her eyes, cheeks, mouth. It is impossible to look at her without smiling. I want to give my life for her laughter...

If you think about it... in a hundred years only our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren will live on this planet... And we will become only a part of the past.

If your child does something wrong, give him another more love– right now he needs her more than ever.

Children truly love their parents when they try to imitate them, copy their habits and behavior.

The most naive people are not in Europe, not in America, or even in fairy tales. The most naive are the administrators of porn resources who ask children: “Are you over 18,” and hope for an honest answer.

Sometimes it is useful to punish children every evening - and they will come up with a reason themselves.

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Honey, I talked to our daughter about love and sex. She’s already 15! - So what, dear? - I’m already burning with impatience to try everything that she told me...

The best way to make a child good is to make him happy.

Children are the flowers of life! My flower has fertilized itself again!...

If people say bad things about your children, it means they are saying bad things about you.

Mom, mom! Why does everyone call me a bulldozer?! - Shut your mouth, you'll scratch the furniture!

The best necklace for a woman is the arms of a child hugging her neck...

I want a daughter. She will be the most beautiful in the world! I will dress her like a princess! But first I will have a son. To protect our princess.

Without parental assistance It's hard to become a parasite.

Children are more like their time than their parents.

A cheerfully laughing girl was born in the maternity hospital, holding something in her fist! When the doctors opened their fist, they saw birth control pill …)))

If a woman has a man whom she loves more than life itself... then this man is her son!

One family had quadruplets. The neighbors ask their seven-year-old brother: - What were the kids' names? - If I understood dad correctly on the phone - Nikha, Yase, Beb, Lyad.

Previously, children were frightened by a babayka, but now by turning off the Internet.

If your child asks for a birthday gift of money, rest assured, he has definitely grown up

A family without children is like heaven without angels.

The best antidepressant, after all, is a child's hug!!! When your dear heart is beating nearby, and your fingers are stroking your hair and wiping away your tears - all troubles recede!!!

Daddy, are you awake? The baby is talking to you. I'm here next to you, in the dark, in mommy's stomach. I have your nose and eyes, I feel your caresses, My laughter will flow soon, Crying, or rather, but not from grief. And while I'm growing up, you protect Mom. I love you all already. Wait, I'll come to you soon!

Children need a role model more than criticism.

Raising a child requires more penetrating thinking, deeper wisdom than governing a state.

I asked my son a riddle - sometimes he loses weight, sometimes he gets fat, he screams all over the house (an accordion), to which he replied: “It’s you, mommy.”

A little son asks his father: Dad, dad! How much does it cost to get married? Dad thought and answered: You know, son, I still don’t know, because... still paying the price.

Mother! Where did the children come from?” Vanyusha asked. And the mother said affectionately: Son! You’re a smart and smart guy at 40 years old.

I will tie your life, son. And then I will give it from my heart. Where do I get threads? I will never tell anyone. To tie your life together, I secretly unravel mine...

Yesterday my son showed me another masterpiece on the wallpaper. When asked where the red paint came from, he said ketchup. Today there is a brown drawing on the wall - I’m afraid to ask.

Children don't owe anyone anything!

In the past, children were allowed bubble and strove for toys, and only as they grew up did they begin to clap chewing gum and begin to tar. Modern reality radically rearranged priorities.

Children want the impossible: for nothing to ever change.

Our children are our old age. Proper education- this is ours happy old age, bad Education- this is our future grief, these are our tears, this is our guilt before other people.

The son becomes more mature when, when asked about a gift, he demands money.

Happiness cannot be bought, happiness can be born!

If there is no food in the house and the children are crap, it means mom spent the whole day on the Internet!

Children are holy and pure. You can’t make them a toy of your mood.

IN kindergarten There were cockroaches and the children were terribly afraid of them, roaring and screaming. One day, during drawing, the teacher took gouache, caught cockroaches and painted them. The result exceeded all expectations, the children ran after the cockroaches and crushed them, screaming with joy as Skittles crawls.

You can't put a child in a corner. Especially the one where there is a joint of wallpaper.

Teacher to parents: – Your children are like flowers in spring! -Oh, thank you!... -Let's loose, bastards!

It’s easy to give up children, find them mutual language much harder.

Your daughter knows exactly how much patience you still have to endure her antics.

They say children are the flowers of life. But mine doesn’t even want to sit on the potty. Probably not an indoor flower.

That the only man, after whom I ran, run and will run, shouts to me: “Catch up with me, mom!”

When a child appears in the house, silence, peace, order, money leave... And HAPPINESS comes!

The children launched Batman from the roof of a high-rise building, and he fell and crashed. The smartest one said: Did I tell you that there are no Batmans in monasteries?

A parent who tries to change his child without starting with himself is not just wasting his time, but is taking a very serious risk.

Cleaning a house where there are CHILDREN is like cleaning SNOW during a SNOW FALL.

I see a little girl, five years old, typing something into a search engine. I come up and read: How to quit a kindergarten?

Children most often grow up good if their mother does not love them enough

To ensure that your offspring choose the right path, pay them an order of magnitude more attention, significantly reducing the amount of pocket money.

They ask their son in kindergarten: What do your parents do? – Dad works, mom is beautiful!!!

Children listen most attentively when they are not being spoken to.

The principles laid down in a person’s childhood are like letters carved on the bark of a young tree, growing with him, constituting an integral part of him.

The child, stroking the cat’s face, playfully says: Musenka, you know, in the human world, women with mustaches are not very valued!

Only children know what they want. They eat with their hands because it's so much fun. They paint on the wallpaper, making their room special. They don't want to be like everyone else. They do the hardest thing - remain themselves.

Today you feed him breast milk and teach you to walk, and tomorrow he teaches you how to use the new computer.

After the magic phrase IT’S TIME TO BED, children are attacked by dryness, hunger and constipation.

No two children are alike - especially if one of them is yours.

The kids are all crazy. That's why they don't go crazy

A child is love made visible.

The world can safely be called naive because of the innocent children born, and ahead of them long haul to perfection.

The best thing we can give our children is to teach them to love themselves.

A gentle face, every feature, a snub-nosed sniffling... Money, career - all this unimportant, important - sleeps nearby.

A child protects his soul like an eyelid protects his eye, and without the key of love he does not let anyone into it.

Nothing decorates an apartment like Small child with markers...

A child is always able to teach an adult three lessons: he is cheerful for no reason, he is always busy with something and knows how to achieve what he wants at any cost.

For the first time a child smiles at age four weeks. By this time, his eyes are already focused enough to get a good look at your face.

No child can dishonor his parents as much as a parent can dishonor a child.

The school introduced a grading system A B C D E. Before the dictation, the teacher says: “Whoever writes poorly will receive an E point!” A voice from the back desks: “Don’t threaten us!”

Children never obeyed adults, but they regularly imitated them.

Wife to husband: Do you see this man in the photograph? Husband: Yes. Wife: You will pick him up from kindergarten at 6 pm!

The purpose of education is to teach our children to do without us.

The programmer did not get creative and named the children New son(1) and New Son (2).

I don’t like it when people talk about having children. Have cats, dogs and guinea pigs, and children are born.

All the children in the world cry in the same language.

In my opinion, all children have one goal - to bring those around them to... to bring them to anything, the main thing is to bring them to anything.

Modern children wait not for Santa Claus to come, but for their parents to leave.

I want that in a couple of years, a smaller copy of him will be running around the apartment in diapers and shaking his butt. Then I will be happy...

Quietly sniffling through his nose, hugging his mother, here he is, lying next to him, my piece of heaven!

The problem is not that children do not listen to their parents, but that children are constantly watching and copying their ancestors.

Children are like flowers: a good gardener even has rose hips that bloom and give useful fruits, for a bad one, a rose surrounded by weeds will wither, never revealing its true beauty.

Children are flowers, they also need a pot.

Children are the flowers of life. They decorate our lives and fill it with meaning. On the eve of Children's Day, we offer you a selection of wonderful quotes and sayings about children. Funny children's sayings and aphorisms about kids will lift your spirits, and quotes from great writers and teachers will teach you the basics of education.

The birth of a child is an opportunity to immerse yourself in childhood again. Just think, after the baby arrives, you will take your first steps and say your first words together, you will go to first grade again for the first time, you will return to prom. Being parents, isn't it wonderful?!

There are many methods of raising a child, but the main one is to give your children all your love and surround them with attention. You need to try to spend every free minute with your child. Remember that it is not your salary that makes your children happy, but your care!

Children are flowers of life that are born with their heads down. (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

In order for flowers to be beautiful and well-groomed, you must always take care of them)

When Saint Exupery was asked: “Is it worth pampering children?”, he replied: “Certainly pamper them, it is unknown what trials life has in store for them.”

No one else in life will spoil you like your parents.

Children need a role model more than criticism. ( J. Joubert)

Instead of criticizing children, show them how to do it by example. After a while, they will unwittingly repeat after you.

Children never obeyed adults, but they regularly imitated them. ( D. Baldwin)

Children copy their parents in everything.

All the children in the world cry in the same language. ( L. Leonov)

Although they show delight in different languages, but it is still understandable to everyone.

If people say bad things about your children, it means they are saying bad things about you. ( V. Sukhomlinsky)

Children are a direct reflection of their parents.

Children are the glances of fearful eyes,
The sound of playful feet on the parquet,
Children are the sun in cloudy motifs,
A whole world of hypotheses of joyful sciences.
Eternal disorder in the gold rings,
Sweet words whisper in half sleep,
Peaceful pictures of birds and sheep,
That in a cozy nursery they are dozing on the wall.
Children are an evening, an evening on the couch,
Through the window, in the fog, sparkles of lanterns,
The measured voice of the tale of Tsar Saltan,
About the mermaids-sisters of the fairy seas.
Children are a rest, a short moment of peace,
A reverent vow to God at the crib,
Children are the world's gentle mysteries,
And in the riddles themselves lies the answer! (M. Tsvetaeva)

Children are the greatest miracle that nature has created.

If you know how to diagnose a child’s joy, the intensity of his joy, then you should have noticed that the greatest joy is the happiness of overcoming a difficulty, achieving a goal, an open secret, the joy of victory and the happiness of independence, mastery, possession. (Janusz Korczak)

Overcoming obstacles and achieving the goal, everyone rejoices, even children.

Children have neither a past nor a future, but unlike us adults, they know how to use the present. (LaBruyere)

Adults need to learn from children not to think about the past and future, but to live in the present.

Be truthful even towards a child: keep your promise, otherwise you will teach him to lie. (L. Tolstoy)

Truth must be taught from childhood.

Aphorisms

Children are one third of the population of our country and our entire future.

The future depends on how you raise your children.

Even the dullest room is decorated with children... Beautifully placed in the corners...

And sleeping children decorate it even more...

I want happiness... such small happiness, with tiny arms and legs, and with your eyes.

But they say correctly that happiness cannot be born, it can be bought.

Happiness is soft warm palms, candy wrappers behind the sofa, crumbs on the sofa... What is happiness? It’s easier not to answer! Everyone who has children has happiness!

Anyone who has a child automatically becomes happy.

Children don't owe anyone anything.

But parents owe it to their children. And a lot.

Children are a blessing that grows over the years.

The more children there are in a family, the more happiness there is.

Giving birth to a child takes a lot of energy, health, and time from a woman. But in return it gives a lot of happiness, love, tenderness.

The birth of a child makes a woman happy.

God has a favorite place -
This is a little baby heart.
He goes there slowly
At the first moment of the baby's birth.

Children don't come from nowhere, they come from God.

About children and meaningful upbringing

Undressing a sleeping baby is like defusing a bomb. One sudden movement – ​​minus 3 hours of sleep.

Even the most rude and careless person will treat a child very gently and slowly.)

Parents do not understand how much harm they cause to their children when, using their parental authority, they want to impose their beliefs and views on life on them.

Children need to be given the right to choose, and not have their beliefs imposed on them.

Don’t hit a child, so that you don’t take it out on your beloved grandchildren.

To hit means to show your weaknesses.

True education consists not so much in rules as in exercises.

Practice has always been more important than theory.

A parent who tries to change his child without starting with himself is not just wasting his time, but is taking a very serious risk. (V. Levi)

To change someone, especially a child, you always need to start with yourself.

Children immediately and naturally become accustomed to happiness, because by their very nature they are joy and happiness. (V. M. Hugo)

Happiness and joy are best friends childhood.

Children should live in a world of beauty, games, fairy tales, music, drawing, fantasy, and creativity. (V. A. Sukhomlinsky)

A child who is brought up in a loving, caring and creative environment will definitely grow up to be kind and talented.

In raising their children, today's parents are raising future history our country, and therefore the history of the world.

Raising a child is an investment in the future.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Give happy childhood, this is the most valuable thing that parents can do for their child.

Usually in kindergarten children learn bad words. I feel like ours will go prepared...

This means that someone at home needs to think first and then speak.

About parents

With your child you experience everything again - you take your first steps, learn to say your first words...

Having a child means going back to childhood again.

Why does a child need 2 parents? - And then, while mom is freaking out, dad is normal, and when dad was already covered with children’s quirks, mom was already released.

Children also need grandmothers to take a break from their parents.

Previously, when I heard the hysterical crying of a child at the neighbors, I thought they were cutting him there, but now I realized that it was just: “a toy fell”, “I want to eat”, “they are putting on a hat”, “they kicked me out of the toilet without allowing me to finish cleaning it”. the walls are covered with brush,” or “they won’t give my mother’s phone number.”

It turns out that the neighbors did not mock the child, but were only concerned about his safety...)

I don't know anything more beautiful
A worthy happy mother
With a small child in her arms. ( T. G. Shevchenko)

Mom is the most happy woman in the world.

Parents, encouraging the whims of their children and pampering them when they are small, spoil their natural inclinations, and then are surprised that the water, the source of which they themselves poisoned, has a bitter taste.

In order to be less disappointed in life, children should know the prohibitions from childhood.

It is much easier to become a father than to remain one.

Giving birth to a child is one thing, but raising him is something completely different.

Remember that your children will treat you the same way you treat your parents.

You need to treat your parents the way you would want your children to treat you.

With the birth of a child, adults also get a new life!

And a second childhood...)

For some reason, many women think that having a child and becoming a mother are the same thing. One could just as well say that having a piano and being a pianist are one and the same thing. (S. Harris)

Alas, not everyone who has children can be called real parents.

Children's statements

Children in kindergarten. - “The stork brought me.” - “And they downloaded me from the Internet.” - “And our family is not rich. Dad does everything himself.”

Turns out, normal family- this is a poor family...))

This section of our website contains interesting and beautiful best sayings great people about children.

Teaching children is a necessary matter; we should understand that it is very useful for us to learn from children ourselves. Maksim Gorky.

Children need to be treated gently because punishment hardens them. Charles Montesquieu.

He who has no children sacrifices death." Francis Bacon.

Parents least of all forgive their children those vices that they themselves instilled in them. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

A child who suffers less abuse grows up to be more self-aware of his dignity. Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky.

A child is a mirror of the family; Just as the sun is reflected in a drop of water, so the moral purity of the mother and father is reflected in the children. Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky.

Nothing surprises when everything surprises: this is the nature of a child. Antoine de Rivarol.

Do not make an idol out of a child: when he grows up, he will require sacrifices. — Pierre Buast.

We do not pretend that we can turn any child into a so-called “talented individual,” but we can always turn him into a “mediocre” adult. Alfred Adler

The best and most irrefutable evidence of our uniqueness are our children. Valery Afonchenko.

Every child is an artist. The difficulty is to remain an artist after leaving childhood. Pablo Picasso.

There are children who are sharp-minded and inquisitive, but wild and stubborn. They are usually hated in schools and are almost always considered hopeless; Meanwhile, great people usually come out of them, if only they are educated properly. Jan Amos Comenius.

If people say bad things about your children, it means they are saying bad things about you. Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky.

If only parents could imagine how annoying they are to their children. Bernard Show.

If I were given a choice: to populate the earth with such saints as I can imagine, but without children, or with people like now, but with children, I would choose the latter. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

Childhood should be given the greatest respect. Decimus Junius Juvenal.

Children are holy and pure. You can’t make them a toy of your mood. - Anton Chekhov.

“Without children it would be impossible to love humanity so much” Fyodor Dostoevsky

Children are always willing to do something. This is very useful, and therefore not only should it not be interfered with, but measures must be taken to ensure that they always have something to do. Jan Amos Comenius.

“One child is enough to fill the whole house and yard” Mark Twain.

Children love everyone, especially those who love and caress them. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

"Every person has traits small child» Eric Byrne.

You cannot scare off children with harshness; they only cannot stand lies. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

“My child looks like his mother... He screams loudly, piercingly! But my eyes are guilty, running around...” Mikhail Zhvanetsky.

Even the devil in his hell would like to have polite and obedient angels. Vladislav Grzegorczyk.

“The child has his own special ability to see, think and feel; there is nothing more stupid than trying to replace this skill with ours.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Every child is born unlearned. It is the duty of parents to teach their children. Catherine II.

Most of us become parents without ceasing to be children. Mignon McLaughlin.

Be truthful even towards a child: keep your promise, otherwise you will teach him to lie. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

In a good family there is never any punishment, and this is the most the right way family education. Anton Semenovich Makarenko.

Save the tears of your children so that they can shed them at your grave. - Pythagoras.

Child prodigies tend to be the children of imaginative parents. Jean Cocteau.

“Children have neither a past nor a future, but unlike us adults, they know how to use the present” Jean La Bruyère.

Give us better mothers and we will the best people. — Jean Paul Richter.

“Allowing a child everything means treating him like an adult; and this the surest way ensure that he never becomes an adult" Thomas Szasz.

There are no children, there are people. Korczak Janusz.

“Every child is an artist. The difficulty is to remain an artist beyond childhood." Pablo Picasso.

Children amuse themselves with one activity or another even when they are doing nothing. Marcus Tullius Cicero.

“Children are younger than us, they still remember how they too were trees and birds, and therefore are still able to understand them; We are too old, we have too many worries, and our heads are filled with jurisprudence and bad poetry.” Heinrich Heine.

Children shame us when they behave in public the way we behave at home. Unknown author

If children grew up in accordance with our expectations, we would only produce geniuses. Johann Goethe.

The charm of children lies in the fact that with each child everything is renewed and the world is presented anew to human judgment. Gilbert Keith Chesterton.

The child shows gratitude to his parents with obedience and respect. Ekaterina II Alekseevna.

If only parents could imagine how annoying they are to their children. George Bernard Shaw.

If you want to grow good children, spend twice on them less money and twice as long. Esther Selsdon.

If, growing up, a child has not learned to love his parents, brothers and sisters, his school, his work, if the principles of deep selfishness have been brought up in his character, it is very difficult to expect that he is able to deeply love the woman he has chosen. Anton Semenovich Makarenko.

Every child is to some extent a genius and every genius is to some extent a child. - Arthur Schopenhauer.

Every child is born a deity and then degrades to become a human being. Simone de Beauvoir.

Man and woman are completed only in the married couple, and the married couple is completed only in the child. Emmanuel Mounier.

Nature rests on the children of geniuses. An old saying

No child likes to be the smallest and least capable all the time. Alfred Adler.

Why is childhood so fleeting and it returns only when your own children are born? Unknown author.

The child begins to speak long before he utters his first word. Oswald Spengler.

Parents are most reluctant to forgive their children the flaws that they themselves instilled in them. M. Ebner-Eschenbach.

We must do with children the same as God does with us: He makes us happiest when He allows us to run from side to side in joyful delusion. Johann Wolfgang Goethe.

Snow, in other words - childhood, in other words happiness. Emil Michel Cioran.

Anyone who no longer remembers his own childhood quite clearly is a bad teacher. Maria-Ebner Eschenbach.

This article contains the best thoughts and statements of great people about children.