Children Quotes

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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
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
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.
A. S. Neill, Summerhill
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
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 need models more than they need critics.
Jeseph Joubert
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
George F. Will
The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
James Agee
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.
Sir Walter Besant
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.
George Gilde
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken
Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.
Alastair Reid
It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.
St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Marcelene Cox
My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx
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
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.
Johann von Goethe
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Maya Angelou
What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash
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
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - - And let the air out of their tires.
Dorothy Parke
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Michael Levine
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.
Ellen Goodman
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
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
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Herbert Clark Hoove
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Muriel Spark
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates