Children Quotes
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
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children Well, she and I were.Mort Sahl
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.Mignon McLaughlin
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
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
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.James Thurbe
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.Hodding Carte
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
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
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.Yiddish Prove
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert Humphrey
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.O. A. Battista
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.John Gray
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.Clarence Darrow
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
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.James Agee
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.Jean Caldwell
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.John Dryden
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.John Adams
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.Aristotle
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.Albert Einstein
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.Robert Orben
Our children change uswhether they live or not.Lois McMaster Bujold
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.Wystan Hugh Auden
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin Franklin
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.Clay Aiken
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.
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Mrs. Sigourney
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
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
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.Lavina Christensen Fugal
Men, in general, are but great children.Napoleon
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.
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
