Children Quotes
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 Humphrey
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.Sir Walter Besant
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.John Dryden
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.Author Unknown
Her children arise up, and call her blessed.Proverbs 3128
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.Lady Bird Johnson
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.Joan Winmill Brown
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
I remember how, in college, I got that part - Time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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
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
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.Norman Douglas
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.Robert Byrne
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
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.Thomas Szasz
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.Clarence Darrow
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.Johann von Goethe
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - Depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.Author Unknown
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.Louis Johannot
I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.Martin Luther King, Jr.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.Robert Orben
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.Elias Canetti
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.Benjamin Spock
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.James Agee
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.Rudyard Kipling
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.Muriel Spark
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.Evelyn Waugh
My music is best understood by children and animals.Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray
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
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
