Children Quotes
Her children arise up, and call her blessed.Proverbs 3128
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.Franklin P. Jones
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.Hebrew Prove
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.Ogden Nash
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.Unknown
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.John Dewey
Children should neither be seen nor heard from - Ever again.W. C. Fields
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.M. Grundle
Our children change us? whether they live or not.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.Harry S Truman
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.Irish Prove
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Lydia Sigourney
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.Haim Ginott
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.Koran
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.George Eliot, Romola, 1863
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.William H. Borah
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
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.
You must work - - - we must all work To make the world worthy of its children.Pablo Casals
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.George F. Will
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.Lavina Christensen Fugal
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.C. S. Robinson
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.Norman Douglas
They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.Roger Rosenblatt
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin Franklin
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - - They terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.Benjamin Spock
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time)
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.Rudyard Kipling
Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.Scottish Prove
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.Roger Rosenblatt
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.Rev. Theodore Hegburgh
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.Alice Thomas Ellis
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.Ricthe
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
