Children Quotes
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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
How to Raise your I. Q. by Eating Gifted Children.Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983)
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
For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country.Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03
My mother loved children - She would have given anything if I had been one.Groucho Marx
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.George Eliot, Romola, 1863
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
We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.Max Born
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Jesse Louis Jackson
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.Kahlil Gibran
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.Betty Naomi Friedan
My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.Groucho Marx
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.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.Robert Byrne
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.Author Unknown
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
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 planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.Thornton
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
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
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.James P. Hogan
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
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
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?Peter Ustinov
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.Franklin P. Jones
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.George F. Will
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.Louis Johannot
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven".
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
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.Fred Allen
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.Jess Lai
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
