Children Quotes

A. j. toynbee - religion holds the solution to all problems of...
Lillian carter, mother of jimmy and billy - sometimes when i look at my children i say to...
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
Edgar Allan Poe
Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - Depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.
Author Unknown
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Michael Levine
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai
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
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
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?
Alan Perlis
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.
Author Unknown
Today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country. And no one is safe from it - Not you, not me and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written on it.
Nancy Davis Reagan
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Herbert Clark Hoove
It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.
Lillian Bell
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
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
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Sir Walter Besant
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
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.
American Indian Prove
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.
William John Bennett
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
O. A. Battista
Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
John Wilmot
I remember how, in college, I got that part - Time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
Homer, The Iliad
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.
Jean Caldwell
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
Hodding Carter Jr.
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
Julius Robert Oppenheime
Adults are just children who earn money.
Kenneth Branaugh
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
Juvenal
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward Beeche
Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom - Discipline, tolerance, honesty - Is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.
Eloise Salholz