Children Quotes
Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.John Wilmot
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.Franklin P. Jones
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
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
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.Mark Twain
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.James P. Hogan
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.Haim Ginott
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.Sam Levenson
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - That work I abhor - Then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.Katherine Paterson
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".
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
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
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.John Wilmot
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.Eric Hoffe
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
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger Lewin
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
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
Children should neither be seen nor heard from - Ever again.W. C. Fields
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.Laurens Van der Post
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
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.Henry Ward Beeche
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.Charles Lam
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.Peter Ustinov
Adults are just children who earn money.Kenneth Branaugh
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.David Richerby
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.Kahlil Gibran
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.Quentin
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.Jean Caldwell
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
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.Ellen Goodman
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children - - Unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide - And - Seek.Bill Cosby, Time Flies
Never have children, only grandchildren.Gore Vidal
