Children Quotes

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

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

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian

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

Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Marcelene Cox

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

William Penn

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Maya Angelou

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.

Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan

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

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

Whittaker Chambers

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

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.

Karl Kraus

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

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Charles Lam

Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.

Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Cente

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Muriel Spark

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

John Adams

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Isodore Duncan

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

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

Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.

Erma Bombeck

We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Sir Walter Besant

Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.

Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

George Gilde

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S Truman

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

Max Born

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Jean Baudrillard

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 need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Harold S. Hulbert

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

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Alice Thomas Ellis