Children Quotes
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.Erma Bombeck
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger Lewin
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.Saint Thomas Aquinas
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
All children are essentially criminal.Denis Diderot
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.Yiddish Prove
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.Charles Dickens
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.Ogden Nash
Men, in general, are but great children.Napoleon
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.Charles Lam
What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.Alastair Reid
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.Quentin
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.Napolean Hill
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
How to Raise your I. Q. by Eating Gifted Children.Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983)
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.Johann von Goethe
Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.James Arthur Baldwin
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
My music is best understood by children and animals.Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
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".
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - That work I abhor - Then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.Katherine Paterson
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
