Children Quotes

Lillian - sometimes when i look at all my children, i say...
Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.
Scottish Prove
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
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.
Napolean Hill
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
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Rev. Theodore Hegburgh
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Sonia Taitz
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Ernest Dimnet
You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.
Audrey Hepburn
Grown - Ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943
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
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.
Ogden Nash
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
Lois mcmaster bujold - our children change uswhether they live or not....
A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T. V., and those are the wrong things.
Marion Hamme
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.
Laurens Van der Post
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
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.
Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
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
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.
Irish Prove
Children should neither be seen nor heard from - Ever again.
W. C. Fields
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
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
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
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles Lam
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
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
Haim Ginott
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Hebrew Prove
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
I love children - - - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Nancy Mitford
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
Walter Lippmann
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
I love children - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Nancy Mitford
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Haida Indian saying
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.
Hodding Carte
Lawers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles Lam
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
Benjamin Spock