Children Quotes
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.George Bernard Shaw
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Cesare Pavese
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
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected.Robert Orben
If the children already born each have only two children themselves... in twenty - Seven to thirty - Five years the population of the world will double.Robert H Bork
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
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.Sam Levenson
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
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
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.Haida Indian saying
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
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.Roger Rosenblatt
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.Margaret Mead
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, "The Little Prince", 1943
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.Sam Levenson
My music is best understood by children and animals.Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.Oliver L. North
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.Mark Twain
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.Thomas Andrew Bailey
Her children arise up, and call her blessed.Proverbs 3128
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
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.Phyllis Dille
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
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.Peter Ustinov
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.John Wilmot
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.Angela Schwindt
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.Doug Larson
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
He who teaches children learns more than they do.German Prove
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.Quentin
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.John J. Plomp
