Children Quotes
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
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.Otto von Bismarck
The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.John Steinbeck
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.Anatole Broyard
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.Lady Bird Johnson
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.Unknown
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.George Eliot, Romola
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.Jess Lai
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.William Penn
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.Fran Lebowitz
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.Roy Blount Jr.
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.Franklin P. Jones
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children need models more than they need critics.Jeseph Joubert
Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.W. H. Auden
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.George Eliot
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.Brian Tracy
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
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.Doug Larson
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
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.John Wilmot
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 yea.Peter Ustinov
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
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.John J. Plomp
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.Sam Levenson
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
It has always been the prerogative of children and half - wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half - wit remains a half - wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.Neil Gaiman, Sandman
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.Florida Scott - Maxwell
Pressure? This is just a football match. When you do not know how to feed your children, that is pressure.Jose Luis Chilavert, Goal keeper for Paraguay, said during France 98 World Cup (soccer/football)
If the children already born each have only two children themselves... in twenty - Seven to thirty - Five years the population of the world will double.Robert H Bork
