Children Quotes
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
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 dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.Henry Ward Beeche
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.Norman Douglas
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.Lady Bird Johnson
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
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.Bill Cosby
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
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.George Bernard Shaw
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.Ellen Goodman
Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.John Wilmot
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian
Adults are just children who earn money.Kenneth Branaugh
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
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
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.John Dewey
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.Euripides, Phrixus
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.William Feathe
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.Harold S. Hulbert
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.Mort Sahl
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.Ricthe
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.Alice Thomas Ellis
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.Eric Hoffe
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.Don Barthelme
Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.Francois Fenelon
Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.Cornelius Stam
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.Ernest Dimnet
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.Erma Bombeck
All children are essentially criminal.Denis Diderot
Children are all foreigners.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
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
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
