Children Quotes
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.Dora Russell
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.Robert Byrne
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.James Agee
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Cesare Pavese
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.Alan Bleasdale
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.Brian Sutton - Smith
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.Saint Francis Xavie
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.Pope John Paul II
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert H. Humphrey
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.Fred Rogers
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.Euripides
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
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.Judith Pugh
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.Fred Allen
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.Clay Aiken
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.Sir Walter Besant
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
He who teaches children learns more than they do.German Prove
For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country.Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
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 English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
Never have children, only grandchildren.Gore Vidal
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.Robert Orben
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.Clarence Darrow
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.William Faulkne
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.Louis Johannot
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.Betty Naomi Friedan
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.Valerie Polakow
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.James Thurbe
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.George Dennison Prentice
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
