Children Quotes
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.Mark Twain
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.John Gray
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
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.Gloria Steinem
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.Franklin P. Jones
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.Harold S. Hulbert
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
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
Adults are just children who earn money.Kenneth Branaugh
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.Napolean Hill
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.Jean Baudrillard
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.Julius Robert Oppenheime
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.Gerald R. Ford
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Youth is a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children.Sir Walter Besant
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
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
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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
You must work - - - we must all work To make the world worthy of its children.Pablo Casals
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.Fred Allen
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.Edgar Allan Poe
The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.Charles Buxton
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.Michel de Montaigne
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
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
I love children - - - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.Nancy Mitford
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde
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
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every yea.Peter Ustinov
Children are all foreigners.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.St. Francis Xavie
All children are essentially criminal.Denis Diderot
