Children Quotes
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.Sam Levenson
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.Michel de Montaigne
Our children change us? whether they live or not.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.Isodore Duncan
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
If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.Robert Joseph Bob Dole
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
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
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
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)
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.Richard Whately
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
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
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Mrs. Sigourney
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.Daniel Webste
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.John Adams
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.George F. Will
Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.Maya Angelou
Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom - Discipline, tolerance, honesty - Is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.Eloise Salholz
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.Ernest Dimnet
The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.Charles Buxton
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.James Arthur Baldwin
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.Carl Jung
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
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
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.Peter De Vries
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.John Locke
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.William Feathe
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
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.George Eliot
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.Jess Lai
