Children Quotes
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.Lady Bird Johnson
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.Gore Vidal
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
A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.Richard Kehl
Children are all foreigners.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.St. Francis Xavie
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 only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.Louis Johannot
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
The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.Andrew H. Malcolm
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.John Updike
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
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
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
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.Lavina Christensen Fugal
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.George Bernard Shaw
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.Walt Disney
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger Lewin
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
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
My music is best understood by children and animals.Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
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
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - A harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - Children into strength and athletic proportion.William Cullen Bryant
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.O. A. Battista
You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.Audrey Hepburn
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
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children Well, she and I were.Mort Sahl
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.John Dewey
