Children Quotes
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
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
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.H Hahn Blavatsky
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.John Wilmot
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.Dora Russell
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
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.Euripides
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.C. S. Robinson
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.Fred Allen
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.O. A. Battista
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.Ogden Nash
I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.Goldie Hawn
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.Otto von Bismarck
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.Napolean Hill
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
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.Robert Orben
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.Rev. Theodore Hegburgh
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.Margaret Mead
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.Fran Lebowitz
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.Hodding Carter Jr.
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.Clarence Darrow
I love children - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.Nancy Mitford
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
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.Isaac Asimov
Lawers, I suppose, were children once.Charles Lam
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
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.Kahlil Gibran
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.Gloria Steinem
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.Phyllis Dille
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
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
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time)
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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
