Children Quotes

Franklin p. jones - you can learn many things from children. how much...
Homer, the iliad - he lives not long who battles with the immortals,...
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
Mrs. Sigourney
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
James Agee
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
W. B. Yeats
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
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.
John Updike
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.
Sandy Farquha
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
Richard Whately
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.
James P. Hogan
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
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.
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 Humphrey
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
He who teaches children learns more than they do.
German Prove
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.
Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
George Eliot, Romola, 1863
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
Franklin P. Jones
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
Jean De La Bruyere
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
Eric Hoffe
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
James Arthur Baldwin
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
Roger Rosenblatt
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
Rudyard Kipling
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
William H. Borah
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - That work I abhor - Then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.
Katherine Paterson
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
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
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
Adults are just children who earn money.
Kenneth Branaugh
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
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Herbert Clark Hoove
The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
Charles Buxton
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 to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
Juvenal
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