Children Quotes

John wilmot - before i got married i had six theories about...
Aristotle - those who educate children well are more to be...
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G. K. Chesterton
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feathe
Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.
William John Bennett
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John J. Plomp
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
Dora Russell
My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
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
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
Alice Thomas Ellis
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurbe
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.
Thomas Andrew Bailey
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.
La Bruyere
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
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.
Benjamin Spock
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
Harry S Truman
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S Truman
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - Or even sinful - That you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes.
Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children - - Unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide - And - Seek.
Bill Cosby, Time Flies
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
Mary McCarthy
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Harold S. Hulbert
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
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.
Cornelius Stam
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.
John Dewey
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.
Mort Sahl
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
David Richerby
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Euripides, Phrixus
How to Raise your I. Q. by Eating Gifted Children.
Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983)
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.
Brian Sutton - Smith
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)
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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
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
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
Lydia Sigourney