Children Quotes

Oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray, 1891 - children begin by loving their parents; as they...
Haida indian saying - we do not inherit this land from our ancestors;...
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children Well, she and I were.
Mort Sahl
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
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
Michel de Montaigne
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 must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
John Adams
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
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
Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.
Steve Allen
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
Benjamin Spock
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - - They terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.
Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.
John Dewey
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Our children change us? whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.
St. Francis Xavie
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Cente
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
Edgar Allan Poe
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
Mark Twain
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
Ricthe
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.
Quentin
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter Ustinov
Lawers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles Lam
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.
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
Gerald R. Ford
Our children change uswhether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.
Napolean Hill
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
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 H. Humphrey
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
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.
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
Mark Twain