Children Quotes
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.C. S. Robinson
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.John Dryden
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.John Wilmot
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Cesare Pavese
It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.Peter De Vries
Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom - Discipline, tolerance, honesty - Is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.Eloise Salholz
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.Edgar Allan Poe
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.Saint Francis Xavie
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.Charles Lam
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.Peter Ustinov
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.George Eliot, Romola
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.Betty Naomi Friedan
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert Humphrey
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.Maxim Gorky
We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.Max Born
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.Brian Sutton - Smith
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.Euripides
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.Fred Rogers
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.A. J. Toynbee
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.Mark Twain
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.Napolean Hill
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.John Adams
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.Franklin P. Jones
Men, in general, are but great children.Napoleon
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.Valerie Polakow
Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.Harold S. Hulbert
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger Lewin
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - Or even sinful - That you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes.Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
Our children change uswhether they live or not.Lois McMaster Bujold
What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
