Children Quotes
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.St. Francis Xavie
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.Juvenal
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.Hodding Carter Jr.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.Ogden Nash
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.Henry Ward Beeche
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.Unknown
Our children change us? whether they live or not.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.Peter De Vries
Children should neither be seen nor heard from - Ever again.W. C. Fields
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.Robert Orben
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.Brian Aldiss
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.Johann von Goethe
Children have more need of models than of critics.Joseph Joubert
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.Otto von Bismarck
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.Gerald R. Ford
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
Children need models more than they need critics.Jeseph Joubert
Never have children, only grandchildren.Gore Vidal
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.George Eliot, Romola
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
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.William Penn
Lawers, I suppose, were children once.Charles Lam
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.Sir Walter Besant
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
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.J. B. Priestley
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.Thomas Szasz
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.Harry S Truman
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.Jean Baudrillard
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time)
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.Dr. Seuss a. k. a. Theodore Giesel
