Children Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about children.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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Those who do not have children miss out on many pleasures, but also avoid many pains.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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These are bad times. Children have stopped obeying their parents and everyone is writing books.

Euripides of Salamis

Euripides of Salamis

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It is a fortunate misfortune to not have children.

Ángel Ganivet

Ángel Ganivet

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Maternal love is always great, but it reaches the sublime when mixed with admiration for the beloved child.

Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca

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Having a child is not like having a bouquet of roses.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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Your children are not your children: they are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

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A house without children is a beehive without bees.

Karl Kraus

Karl Kraus

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When parents have built everything, all that is left for the children is to demolish it.

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur

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Do not avoid your children the difficulties of life, rather teach them to overcome them.

José María Pemán

José María Pemán

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A child is a question we ask of destiny.

Juan Rulfo

Juan Rulfo

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Learn this, son: in the new nest, you have to leave an egg. When old age flaps its wings at you, you will learn to live, you will know that your children leave you, that they don't appreciate anything; that they even consume your memory.