Children & Money Quote Collection
“The Biden administration’s new child allowance is wealth redistribution and the first step toward a universal basic income, because it includes no work requirement” — Marco Rubio


“I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there’s enough money, the children should live in a third” — Cloris Leachman

“Adults are just children who earn money” — Kenneth Branaugh

“A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune” — Richard Whately

“If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won’t either” — Marian Wright-Edelman

“I’d give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life’s decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day” — Lewis Carroll

“Gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play” — Robert F. Kennedy

“A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just” — Proverbs 13:22

“As an economist I believe that good things are worth paying for; and that even if curing children’s poverty were expensive, it would be hard to think of a better use in the world for money. If society cares about children, it should be willing to spend money on them” — Robert Solow

“Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child” — Maggie Gallagher

“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience” — Ludwig van Beethoven

“Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there’s the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in” — Marcelene Cox

“No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them” — Horace Mann
“We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens” — Sandra Day O’Connor

“Sometimes parents wait until their kids are in their teens before they start talking about managing money — when they could be starting when their kids are in preschool” — Warren Buffett

“I have always seen great value in practicing kindness. Although I had no money to buy gifts as a child, I gave my friends the gift of song to cheer them up” — Tina Turner

“No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure” — Emma Goldman

“If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money” — John Updike

“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence” — Plato

“Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children” — Zachary Taylor

“Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain” — Moliere

“Adults devise a plan and follow it. Children do what feels good. Be an adult and make a budget” — Dave Ramsey

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children” — Charles R. Swindoll

“One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like” — Muhammad Yunus

“When vastly wealthy people say, ‘I’m not leaving my kids any money,’ it’s typically not true” — Jamie Johnson

“A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children” — Ian Anderson

“A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty” — Unknown

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money” — Abigail Van Buren

“The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any” — Katharine Whitehorn

“As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you’re grown up, a credit card does it” — Sam Ewing

“Your children need your presence more than your present” — Jesse Jackson

“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it” — Richard Lamm
“We reward people a lot for being rich… one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of ‘usefulness’” — Barack Obama

“Three groups spend other people’s money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision” — Aristotle