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 the reflections of famous people of both the 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.
Fyodor 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, it is a period when a little person 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. Most interesting stage human 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.
Leo 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 is more a child 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
Miracles happen only in childhood.
Vladislav Grzegorczyk
Childhood is the light at the beginning of the tunnel.
Dmitry Pashkov
Fruits taste best to us when they are running low; Children are most beautiful when childhood ends.
Seneca
Childhood - happiest years life, but not for children.
Michael Moorcock
Childhood: a wonderful time of life when all you have to do to lose weight is take a bath.
Richard Zera
Children have neither a past nor a future, but, unlike us adults, they know how to use the present.
Jean La Bruyère
Babies are innocent in their bodily weakness, and not in their soul.
Augustine the Blessed
Children are impudent, picky, quick-tempered, envious, curious, self-seeking, lazy, frivolous, cowardly, intemperate, deceitful and secretive; they easily burst into laughter or tears, over trifles they indulge in immoderate joy or bitter sadness, they cannot stand pain and love to inflict it - they are already people.
Jean La Bruyère
No wonder people are so terrible if they have to start life as children.
Kingsley Amis
The boy shouts: “You can’t! Two for one! He doesn’t know that this is the only way it will happen.
Ramon Gomez de la Serna
When I was a girl, I only had two girlfriends, and only imaginary ones. And they only played with each other.
Rita Rudner
The fun of adults is called business, and for children they are also business.
Augustine the Blessed
My mother served leftovers from dinner for thirty years. No one ever saw the dinner itself.
Calvin Trillin
Every child is an artist. The difficulty is to remain an artist beyond childhood.
Pablo Picasso
Children's lies and the sincerity of adults are two shortcomings that cannot be forgiven.
Zdislav Kalandkiewicz
He suffered a concussion as a child and since then believed everything that was written in the Sunday newspapers.
George Eide
Who needs him - such a baby through whose lips the truth speaks?
Leonid Leonidov
Children are angels whose wings shorten as their arms and legs grow.
Children are our consolation in old age and help us reach it faster.
Lionel Kaufman
Children can be good or bad, but grandchildren are always amazing.
Ludwik Hirschfeld
Late children are early orphans.
Benjamin Franklin
Love is the last and most severe childhood disease.
A difficult childhood never ends.
Jerzy Urban
Childhood is freedom from age.
Arkady Davidovich
Childhood is a promise that never comes true.
Ken Hill
In the theater of life, the only real spectators are children.
Vladislav Grzeszczyk
The events of childhood do not pass away, but are repeated like the seasons.
Elinor Farjeon
If you didn’t have a bicycle as a child, and now you have a BMW-745, then you still didn’t have a bicycle as a child.
Unknown author
When you finally return to your old house, it turns out that you were looking not for your old home, but for your childhood.
Sam Ewing
First we part with childhood, and then with youth.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
Childhood should be given the greatest respect.
Juvenal Decimus Junius
It is better to cry in childhood than in old age.
Unknown author
Human customs and laws are such that if at the beginning of growth, in childhood, in the prime of youth, when the mind and understanding are very receptive and not overloaded, when talent and abilities are in their prime - if at this time a person does not comprehend anything in the sciences, then will not comprehend subsequently during a long life.
As-Samarkandi
Only that in a person is strong and reliable that was absorbed into his nature in the first period of life.
Jan Amos Comenius
Let childhood mature in childhood.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Many people think that childhood was the best and most enjoyable time of their life. But that's not true. These are the most difficult years, because then a person is under the yoke of discipline and can rarely have a true friend, and even less often - freedom.
Immanuel Kant
In the very early childhood heroic feelings must already be instilled, tuning the soul to deeds of love and nobility. And does history provide few examples of heroes?
Nikolai Vasilievich Shelgunov
Childhood is that great time of life when the foundation is laid for the entire future of a moral person.
Nikolai Vasilievich Shelgunov
The song that a mother sings at the cradle accompanies a person all his life, until the grave.
Henry Ward Beecher
Respect... pure, clear, immaculate holy childhood!
Janusz Korczak
The years of childhood are, first of all, the education of the heart.
Many troubles have their roots precisely in the fact that from childhood a person is not taught to manage his desires, he is not taught to correctly relate to the concepts of what is possible, what is necessary, and what is not.
Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky
By impoverishing the world of childhood, we make it difficult for the child to enter society, the team.
Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky
Over the years, emptiness and disappointment develop in those young people whose childhood and adolescence were thoughtless satisfaction of their needs.
Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky
In children's fantasies, there are almost always situations in which the child has power over someone.
Alfred Adler
Childhood is a time of many questions, possibilities and consequences.
Alfred Adler
Poor is childhood that is sacrificed to mature years.
Wilhelm Dilthey
Conscious childishness is a person’s glory, not shame.
Georges Bataille
Snow, in other words - childhood, in other words - happiness.
Emil Michel Cioran
Childhood is when everything is surprising and nothing is surprising.
A. Rivarol
Childhood is a state that you cannot return to, but you can fall into.
Author unknown
Childhood is a butterfly that cannot wait to burn its white wings in the flame of youth.
A. Bertrand
Many people think that childhood was the best and most enjoyable time of their life. But that's not true. These are the most difficult years, because then a person is under the yoke of discipline and can rarely have a true friend, and even less often - freedom.
I. Kant
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 back to first grade for the first time, and go back to the prom again. 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 a goal makes everyone happy, 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 kind and talented.
By raising children, today's parents are raising the future history of 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.
Giving a happy childhood is the most valuable thing 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 happiest 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.”
It turns out that a normal family is a poor family...))
A child has been worried about the future since childhood...)
In the morning we are going to the garden, I woke up my son, and he said:
- Thank you, mommy, for waking me up!
Children's pearls are pure tenderness.
Grandmother complains of abdominal pain. Tanya tells her: “Grandma, take some animal pills!”
A child will not give bad advice.
8My son was 6 years old. Looks carefully at the teacher's manicure.
- Olga Alexandrovna, your nails are so long...
- Yes. Like?
- Like. Climbing trees is probably good.
Quotes and Aphorisms 21.04.2018
Dear readers, if you have children, then when asked what is most important to you in life, you know what to answer. And despite the fact that with the appearance of children in our lives, we acquire a lot of new problems and difficulties that we have not encountered before, along with this, children fill our lives with meaning and great love.
Quotes and aphorisms about children succinctly and accurately express feelings and thoughts associated with childhood and children. And perhaps main idea that first of all they give us the opportunity to become better.
We all come from childhood
“All adults were once children. Only few people remember this,” said Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Quotes about children will help us remember the feeling of lightness and fullness of life that we experienced in childhood.
“Children are younger than us, they still remember how they too were trees and birds and therefore are still able to understand them; We’re too old, we have too many worries, and our heads are full of jurisprudence and bad poetry.”
Heinrich Heine
“It’s only a step from a five-year-old child to me. There is a terrible distance from the newborn to me.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Moving away from the conditions of society and approaching nature, we involuntarily become children: everything acquired falls away from the soul, and it becomes again the same as it once was and, probably, will be someday again.”
Mikhail Lermontov
“Be yourself both man and child, so that you can teach the child.”
Vladimir Odoevsky
“Every child is partly a genius, and every genius is partly a child.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“In each of us there is still a three-year-old child who is scared, who just wants a little love.”
Louise Hay
“A great man is one who has not lost his childish heart.”
Mencius
Ah, childhood, your days are pure, like frames from an old film...
Quotes and aphorisms about children with meaning indicate that children are not just little people who are just beginning to experience life, but also a chance for our world to become a little brighter and kinder.
“Children are the reason why heaven has not yet destroyed the world.”
Moritz-Gottlieb Safir
“How terrible the world would be if children were not constantly born, bringing with them innocence and the possibility of all perfection!”
John Ruskin
“Your children are not your children. They appear through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, because they have their thoughts. You can give a home to their bodies, but not to their souls. You are only bows from which living arrows are sent forward, which you call your children.”
Gibran Kahlil Gibran
“There is no hymn on earth more solemn than the babbling of children’s lips.”
Victor Hugo
“There are no children, there are people. But with a different scale of concepts, a different store of experience, different drives, a different play of feelings.”
Janusz Korczak
“Children’s play often has deep meaning.”
Friedrich Schiller
“Nature wants children to be children before they are adults. If we want to disrupt this order, we will produce early-ripening fruits that will have neither ripeness nor taste and will not slow down in deterioration.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children are happiness, children are joy...
Very often happiness comes to our home with the birth of a child. And life changes completely along with this, it becomes different, makes you look at yourself and other people in a new way, the world around us. And we begin to see what we have not seen before. Quotes and aphorisms about children and happiness so vividly describe the joy that children bring into our lives.
“Children immediately and naturally become accustomed to happiness, because they themselves, by their nature, are joy and happiness.”
Victor Hugo
“Children multiply our everyday worries and anxieties, but at the same time, thanks to them, death does not seem so terrible to us.”
Francis Bacon
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother in life.”
Sophocles
“A child is love made visible.”
Novalis
“Children are a happiness that grows over the years.”
“Happiness cannot be bought. But he can be born.”
“I take your hand in my hand and kiss the crown on your wrist. It was not in vain that I suffered to give birth to such happiness.”
“The day begins with happiness, happiness rose before everyone else. Happiness smiles at mom, turning her smile into laughter.”
“When children are born, order, money, peace, relaxation disappear in the house - and happiness comes.”
“Only when you have children do you understand that there is a life that is more valuable than your own.”
Children are the flowers of life
The quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry that children are flowers of life that are born with their heads down is familiar to everyone. Maxim Gorky called children “the living flowers of the earth.” Because a child is a vessel filled to the brim with trust in this world. Children decorate our lives and give it meaning.
“Children are holy and pure. You can’t make them the plaything of your mood.”
Anton Chekhov
“The child’s state of mind runs through our entire lives - it is this that prompts us to seek the meaning of life, to seek God.”
Vladimir Levi
“In the theater of life, the only real spectators are children.”
Vladislav Grzeszczyk
“Without children it would be impossible to love humanity so much.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Children are the living force of society. Without them it seems bloodless and cold.”
Anton Makarenko
“I am sure that if you had to choose to live where the noise of children does not stop for a minute, or where it is never heard, then all normal and healthy people would prefer incessant noise to incessant silence.”
Bernard Shaw
Only one world is limitless - childhood
There are many beautiful quotes and aphorisms about children. They contain all the wisdom and the very essence of such a magical time. human life like childhood.
“Children have neither a past nor a future, but, unlike us adults, they know how to use the present.”
Jean de La Bruyère
“Children are our judges of tomorrow, they are critics of our views and actions, they are people who go into the world for the great work of building new forms of life.”
Maxim Gorky
“Children teach adults not to become completely immersed in something and to remain free.”
Mikhail Prishvin
“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.”
“You will never be able to create wise men if you kill naughty children.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“We teach our children first. Then we ourselves learn from them.”
Jan Rainis
“Take care of the tears of your children so that they may shed them at your grave.”
Pythagoras
“Children’s charm lies in the fact that with each child everything is renewed and the world appears anew for human judgment.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
“Tell something to the children - all the way to the end. But they will certainly ask: “What next? Why? Children are the only brave philosophers.”
Evgeny Zamyatin
The purpose of education is the development of the child
Quotes about parenting give an idea of what exactly it should involve and when it is most effective. After all, education is not only and not so much moral teaching and reading morals, but the ability to understand what children really need and provide them with the opportunity for further development.
“Preaching from the pulpit, captivating from the platform, teaching from the pulpit is much easier than raising one child.”
Alexander Herzen
“Education means nourishing the child’s abilities, and not creating those new abilities that he does not have.”
Giuseppe Mazzini
“A child needs your love most when he deserves it least.”
Erma Bombeck
“Let the child’s first lesson be obedience, then the second may be what you consider necessary.”
Thomas Fuller
“Children need role models more than criticism.”
Joseph Joubert
“All the difficulties of upbringing arise from the fact that parents, not only not correcting their shortcomings, but also justifying them in themselves, want not to see these shortcomings in their children.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Don’t make an idol out of a child; when he grows up, he will demand sacrifices.”
Pierre Buast
“Do you know which one is the most the right way make your child unhappy? This is to teach him not to refuse anything.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Parenting is the most difficult thing. You think – well, it’s all over now! No such luck – it’s just beginning!”
Mikhail Lermontov
“Parents often confuse the concepts of “upbringing” and “education” and think that they have given their child an upbringing when they have forced him to study so many subjects. Hence the frequent disappointment of parents in their children in subsequent years.”
Anton Rubinstein
“Sow an action and you will reap a habit; sow a habit and you will reap a character; sow a character and you will reap a destiny.”
William Thackeray
“If you want to raise good children, spend half as much money and twice as much time on them.”
Sukhomlinsky about children and their upbringing
The great teacher Vasily Aleksandrovich Sukhomlinsky dedicated his life to children. Tips on how to discern the personality in a child are reflected in Sukhomlinsky’s quotes on raising children. They will never lose their relevance.
"Most main feature pedagogical culture should be a feeling for the spiritual world of each child, the ability to give each as much attention and spiritual strength as necessary for the child to feel that he is not forgotten, his grief, his grievances and suffering are shared.”
“Only he can become a real teacher who never forgets that he himself was a child.”
“By raising your child, you are raising yourself, asserting your human dignity.”
“Children don’t need to be told a lot, don’t stuff them with stories; words are not fun, but verbal satiety is one of the most harmful satiations. The child needs not only to listen to the teacher’s word, but also to remain silent; in these moments he thinks, comprehends what he heard and saw. We must not turn children into passive objects of perception of words.”
“Let your pupil be rebellious, self-willed - this is incomparably better than silent obedience and lack of will.”
“Where everything is based on punishment, there is no self-education, and without self-education, education in general cannot be normal. It cannot, because punishment already frees the student from remorse, and conscience is the main engine of self-education; where conscience sleeps, there can be no question of self-education. The one who has received punishment thinks: I have nothing more to think about my action, I got what was due.”
“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.”
Personality education according to Makarenko
The brilliant teacher Anton Semenovich Makarenko had his own view on raising children. His methodology was criticized and persecuted, however, according to UNESCO, he is one of the four people who had the most strong influence on modern pedagogical science. Makarenko’s quotes about raising children show his vision of how to raise a full-fledged personality.
“Your own behavior is the most decisive thing. Do not think that you are raising a child only when you talk to him, or teach him, or order him. You raise him at every moment of your life, even when you are not at home.”
“The educational process is a constantly ongoing process, and its individual details are resolved in the general tone of the family, and the general tone cannot be invented and artificially maintained. The general tone, dear parents, is created by your own life and your own behavior.”
“Do you want to corrupt the soul of your child? Then don’t refuse him anything. And over time you will understand that you are not raising a person, but a crooked tree.”
“Concentrating love on one child is a terrible delusion.”
“If at home you are rude, or boastful, or drunk, and even worse, if you insult your mother, you no longer need to think about education: you are already raising your children, and raising them badly, and no best tips and methods will not help you.”
“So we all invent educational systems: this is how we should educate, this way... But in fact, parents and educators have one task: to preserve by the age of 18 nervous system the child is safe and sound. Life will put such a burden on his shoulders that his nerves will need to be intact, and we tear them to shreds from an early age...”
Quotes about children and parents
The relationship between parents and children is not always cloudless. And if you are faced with the problem of fathers and children, let's remember that it is we, parents, who contributed to their emergence to a large extent. Children are our reflection, and this idea is clearly visible in quotes about children and parents.
“Children and parents are birds of a feather, but grown at different times.”
Natalya Rozbitskaya
“How often do children hear that they should be grateful to their parents. Because they spent their entire lives on them, didn’t sleep at night, and simply because they gave birth to them... Have you ever wondered how much children give to their parents? Real love, joy, hope... How often, next to a child, we feel smart and omnipotent. A child gives us a sense of self-worth. So maybe we shouldn’t expect gratitude from children, because they gave us no less?”
“Children rarely misinterpret our words. They repeat, amazingly accurately, everything we shouldn’t have said.”
“It’s curious: with each generation, children are getting worse, and parents are getting better; It follows from this that increasingly good parents grow up from worse children.”
Wieslaw Brudzinski
“Parents least of all forgive their children those vices that they themselves instilled in them.”
Johann Friedrich Schiller
“When children baffle their father, he sends them to the corner.”
Valery Mironov
“Children never obeyed adults, but they always imitated them.”
James Baldwin
“When you finally realize that your father was usually right, you yourself have a son growing up convinced that his father is usually wrong.”
Peter Lawrence
“He who has no children sacrifices death.”
Francis Bacon
Children are our future
We all want our children to grow up better, smarter, happier than us. Quotes on the topic that children are our future reveal to us the full meaning of this famous phrase.
“You will live in the world ten times, repeated ten times in children. And in your last hour you will have the right to triumph over conquered death.”
“Look at my children. My former freshness is alive in them. They are the justification for my old age.”
William Shakespeare
“Life is short, but a person lives it again in his children.”
Anatole France
“Children are one third of the population of our country and our entire future. Children make me want to live.”
Muhammad Ali
“By raising children, today’s parents are raising the future history of our country, and therefore the history of the world.”
“Our children are our old age. Proper upbringing is our happy old age, bad upbringing is our future grief, our tears, our guilt before other people.”
Anton Makarenko
“Children are living messages that we send to a future that we will not see.”
Alfred Whitehead
“Fear for a child is more than fear for one’s own life. This is fear for one’s immortality.”
Victoria Tokareva
The magical world of childhood
You don't always need a lot of words to express the essence of things. Short Quotes meaningfully about children only confirms this.
“The child is the future.”
Victor Marie Hugo
"A child gives birth to parents."
Stanislav Jerzy Lec
“All the children in the world cry in the same language.”
Leonid Leonov
“Most of us become parents before we stop being children.”
Minion McLaughlin
“Children listen most attentively when people are not talking to them.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“We always make up our children.”
Voldemar Lysyak
“Every person is always someone’s child.”
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
“Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.”
Malcolm de Chazal
“The efforts of adults are aimed, in essence, at making the child comfortable for themselves.”
“The loneliness of a child gives the doll a soul.”
Janusz Korczak
“Abandoned children often live with their parents.”
“Children are a strict assessment given by life itself.”
About children with a smile
Where there are children, there is fun and laughter. And that's right. After all, childhood is the most carefree time of life. Let this selection of funny quotes about children once again remind us of this.
Quotes about the childhood of Russian famous people
The statements of great people about childhood make you think deeply. They will become ideal material for a matinee dedicated to the round anniversary of the birth of one of the authors of quotes, for Children's Day or for graduation from kindergarten and schools.
If you want to add irony and sarcasm to your holiday scenario, then you should pay attention to. They will not leave anyone indifferent, causing a smile and laughter.
- “Happy, happy, irrevocable time of childhood! How not to love, not to cherish the memories of her? These memories refresh, elevate my soul and serve as a source of the best pleasures for me.” Leo Tolstoy
- “Children teach us a lot and... make us better just by our contact with them; they humanize our soul just by their appearance between us.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “Our children are our old age. Proper upbringing is our happy old age, bad upbringing is our future grief, our tears, our guilt before other people.” Anton Makarenko
- “Childhood is the most important period of human life, not preparation for future life, but a real, bright, original, unique life. And from how childhood passed, who led the child by the hand during childhood, what entered his mind and heart from the world around him - from this in decisive degree It depends on what kind of person today’s baby will become.” Vasily Sukhomlinsky
- “The generation of communism must be formed from childhood, protected and strengthened in its youth, and careful care must be taken to ensure that we do not have moral cripples - victims of improper upbringing and bad examples. If young plantings fruit trees are damaged to one degree or another, then how much labor needs to be spent to get them out and level them, and this is not always possible. It’s the same with people of the new generation.” Nikita Khrushchev
- “Did I hear the clap of one hand? There were many times as a child when my mother spanked my butt. I think that’s why I became a Buddhist.” Victor Pelevin
- “Even as a child, Leningrad street taught me the rule: if a fight is unavoidable, you must strike first...” Vladimir Putin
Quotes about the childhood of foreign famous people
We know these people by their deeds or works. But do we know them themselves? Can a short phrase - a memory of one's own childhood, thoughts about what it should be like, or a quote from a character in an author's book - tell us about character? famous person? Let's take a closer look.
- “It is often considered a sign of cruelty that children tear into pieces, tear apart, pluck objects with which they for a long time played or used in one way or another; but this also expresses curiosity, a desire to find out how these things work, what is inside them.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Many people think that childhood was the best and most enjoyable time of their life. But that's not true. These are the most difficult years, because then a person is under the yoke of discipline and can rarely have a true friend, and even less often freedom.” Immanuel Kant
- “I never allowed my schoolwork to interfere with my education.” Mark Twain
- “We waste our childhood wanting to become adults, and when we grow up, we spend our whole lives trying not to grow old.” Clive Lewis
- “Comrades raise much better than parents, because pity is not characteristic of them.” Andre Maurois
- “It seems to me that one of the most great luck in a person’s life - a happy childhood.” Agatha Christie
- “The brain distorts pictures of childhood, painting it as more joyful or gloomy, and in any case much more interesting than it actually was.” Frederic Beigbeder
- “It’s sad if you spent your childhood without really seeing it.” Jodie Foster
