Children Quotes

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.

Ogden Nash

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

George Gilde

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

He who teaches children learns more than they do.

German Prove

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S Truman

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

Max Born

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.

Koran

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Plato

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Brian Aldiss

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Phyllis Dille

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Margaret Mead

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

John Adams

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

Mort Sahl

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Dan Quayle, 9/18/90

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

David Friedman

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Charles Lam

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

John J. Plomp

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.

Hodding Carte

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Ogden Nash

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

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

Margaret Mead

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

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children Well, she and I were.

Mort Sahl

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

All children are essentially criminal.

Denis Diderot

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.

Robert Joseph Bob Dole

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - And let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parke

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.

Richard Whately

Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - Depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.

Author Unknown

We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.

American Indian Prove

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

H Hahn Blavatsky

Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.

Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)

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