Children Quotes

Bertrand russell - the fundamental defect of fathers is that they...
Mignon mclaughlin - most of us become parents long before we have...
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has always been the prerogative of children and half - wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half - wit remains a half - wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil Gaiman, Sandman
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken
A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T. V., and those are the wrong things.
Marion Hamme
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson
It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.
Lillian Bell
He who teaches children learns more than they do.
German Prove
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
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
W. B. Yeats
Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.
Unknown
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
M. Grundle
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Ursula K. LeGuin
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.
Benjamin Spock
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Arthur Baldwin
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
I love children - - - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Nancy Mitford
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.
Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.
Author Unknown
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Children are our most valuable natural resource.
Herbert Clark Hoove
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.
George Eliot, Romola
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.
Lillian
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
Mark Twain
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Nancy Mitford
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
Saint Francis Xavie
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
Maxim Gorky
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.
John Updike
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.
Irish Prove
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott - Maxwell
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
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Harold S. Hulbert
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Haida Indian saying
All children are essentially criminal.
Denis Diderot
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