Thursday Thirteen

13 Famous Quotes about Children

1. “Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” Lady Bird Johnson

2. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” Dr. Seuss

3. “Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.” Anonymous

4. “Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.” Wayne Dyer

5. “Children need models rather than critics.” Joseph Joubert

6. “Making the decision to have a child - it’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body.” Elizabeth Stone

7. “There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.” Erma Bombeck

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

9. “If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.” Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

10. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” James Baldwin

11. “Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”Phyllis Diller

12. “A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.” Author Unknown

13. “Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.” John Wilmont