Children Quotes
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.John Gray
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.John Wilmot
Children have more need of models than of critics.Joseph Joubert
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.Carl Jung
I love children - - - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.Nancy Mitford
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.Albert Einstein
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
There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.Oliver L. North
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
The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.Andrew H. Malcolm
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.John Locke
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
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
My mother loved children - She would have given anything if I had been one.Groucho Marx
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.Bill Cosby
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
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.Maxim Gorky
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.Harold S. Hulbert
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.Ellen Goodman
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.St. Francis Xavie
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
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
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.Mark Twain
My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.Groucho Marx
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.Kahlil Gibran
I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.Ricthe
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.Ernest Dimnet
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
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
If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.Robert Joseph Bob Dole
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.Kahlil Gibran
Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected.Robert Orben
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.Muriel Spark
