Children Quotes
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
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.Pope John Paul II
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
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
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.Thomas Andrew Bailey
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
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
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.Juvenal
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.Alice Thomas Ellis
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.Walter Lippmann
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
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.William Penn
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
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.Dr. Seuss a. k. a. Theodore Giesel
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.James Thurbe
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?Peter Ustinov
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
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.Michael Levine
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.George Gilde
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
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.Angela Schwindt
Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.St. Francis Xavie
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
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Jesse Louis Jackson
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.Groucho Marx
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
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)
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
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.Valerie Polakow
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger Lewin
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven".
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.Anatole Broyard
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.Edgar Allan Poe
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
We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.Max Born
