Children Quotes
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.James Arthur Baldwin
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.Peter Cochrane
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.Walter Lippmann
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.Yiddish Prove
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.Norman Douglas
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.Aristotle
We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.American Indian Prove
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
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.Michael Levine
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.Haida Indian saying
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.Hebrew Prove
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 sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.James Arthur Baldwin
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.David Richerby
The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.Henry Ward Beeche
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.Richard Whately
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.George Bernard Shaw
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.Sandy Farquha
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.Euripides, Phrixus
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
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
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.Henry Ward Beeche
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.Angela Schwindt
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.Ricthe
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
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
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
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
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.John Gray
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.Socrates
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.Ursula K. LeGuin
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
