Children Quotes
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.Rev. Theodore Hegburgh
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.Richard Whately
It has always been the prerogative of children and half - wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half - wit remains a half - wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.Neil Gaiman, Sandman
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.Isodore Duncan
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.Ogden Nash
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.Isaac Asimov
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.Socrates
Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.Scottish Prove
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.John Wilmot
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
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
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.Lillian Bell
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.Alan Bleasdale
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Kelle
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.Daniel Webste
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.Haim Ginott
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.Edgar Allan Poe
Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.Judith Pugh
A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T. V., and those are the wrong things.Marion Hamme
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.John Locke
You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.Audrey Hepburn
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.Steve Allen
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.Sandy Farquha
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children.Sir Walter Besant
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.Sir Walter Besant
The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.Andrew H. Malcolm
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - - And let the air out of their tires.Dorothy Parke
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.Black Elk
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger Lewin
