Children Quotes
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.Kahlil Gibran
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.Lady Bird Johnson
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.J. B. Priestley
My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.Groucho Marx
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.Norman Douglas
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, "The Little Prince", 1943
Children should neither be seen nor heard from - Ever again.W. C. Fields
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.Ricthe
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
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
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)
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Mrs. Sigourney
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.John Gray
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.O. A. Battista
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.Oliver L. North
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.Ogden Nash
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.H Hahn Blavatsky
Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.Francois Fenelon
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.John J. Plomp
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.Hodding Carter Jr.
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.Michael Levine
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.John Updike
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
Today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country. And no one is safe from it - Not you, not me and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written on it.Nancy Davis Reagan
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.Fran Lebowitz
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.Gloria Steinem
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.Ernest Dimnet
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.Juvenal
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
