Children Quotes

Kenneth branaugh - adults are just children who earn money....
Ludwig van beethoven - recommend to your children virtue that alone can...
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
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
M. Grundle
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
Dr. Seuss a. k. a. Theodore Giesel
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
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt Disney
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.
Jean Caldwell
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven".
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
Katharine Whitehorn
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.
Max Born
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feathe
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
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
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.
Fred Allen
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben
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
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
Evelyn Waugh
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
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time)
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.
Louis Johannot
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
Charles Dickens
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken
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
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
George Dennison Prentice