Children Quotes

Isaac asimov - science can be introduced to children well or...
Lawers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles Lam
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.
Anna Garlin Spence
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.
Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?
Alan Perlis
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
Roy Blount Jr.
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
W. B. Yeats
Wystan hugh auden - the countenances of children, like those of...
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.
Ogden Nash
I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
Goldie Hawn
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
M. Grundle
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
Koran
Anne frank, the diary of a young girl - parents can only advise their children or point...
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time)
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.
A. S. Neill, Summerhill
Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.
William John Bennett
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.
George Gilde
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard
My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
J. B. Priestley
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott - Maxwell
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
James Agee
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Herbert Clark Hoove
Our children change us? whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.
John Steinbeck
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.
Fred Allen
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
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