Russell Baker Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

  Russell Baker

  Children, Growing Up, Parenting

• How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.

  Russell Baker

  Education, Children, Home

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

• Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

  Russell Baker

  Birthday, Children, Parent

  Russell Baker (2011). “Growing Up”, p.17, RosettaBooks

• Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

  Russell Baker

  Children, Reality, People

• It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.

  Russell Baker

  Children, Hate, Pay

• I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.

  Russell Baker

  Family, Children, Confused

  Russell Baker, William Knowlton Zinsser (1998). “Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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