Children Quotes

Aristotle - mothers are fonder than fathers of their children...
Brian aldiss - when childhood dies, its corpses are called...
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G. K. Chesterton
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
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
H Hahn Blavatsky
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 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
I love children - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Nancy Mitford
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Nancy Mitford
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.
Sandy Farquha
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
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Daniel Webste
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.
Johann von Goethe
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Kelle
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Euripides, Phrixus
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.
Ogden Nash
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
Jean De La Bruyere
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - A harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - Children into strength and athletic proportion.
William Cullen Bryant
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
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
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - And let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parke
Our children change uswhether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.
Hodding Carte
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
J. B. Priestley
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
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
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
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Sonia Taitz
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
Mary McCarthy
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
Richard Whately
We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.
Max Born
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Haida Indian saying
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.
George Gilde
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
Peter Cochrane
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