Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
~ Graham Greene - [Children]

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
~ Germaine Greer - [Children]

I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
~ Jack Handey - [Children]

Children always turn to the light.
~ David Hare - [Children]

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
~ Jane Harrison - [Children]

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
~ Shirley Hazzard - [Children]

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes - [Children]

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes - [Children]

Children are our most valuable natural resource.
~ Herbert Clark Hoover - [Children]

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
~ Bob Hope - [Children]