Children Quotes
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.Sam Levenson
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.Erma Bombeck
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
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.Kahlil Gibran
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
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.A. J. Toynbee
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.Hebrew Prove
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.Ursula K. LeGuin
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.Angela Schwindt
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
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
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.William Faulkne
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.Ricthe
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.Joan Winmill Brown
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.Sir Walter Besant
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Kelle
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.George Eliot
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
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
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
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
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.John Wilmot
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.Valerie Polakow
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.Jess Lai
He who teaches children learns more than they do.German Prove
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
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.Charles Lam
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.Mignon McLaughlin
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.Fred Rogers
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.Peter Cochrane
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.Clarence Darrow
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.William Feathe
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.Ernest Dimnet
