Children Quotes
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Jesse Louis Jackson
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
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.Haida Indian saying
We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.Max Born
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.John Adams
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai
The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.Charles Buxton
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.Louis Johannot
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.Sir Walter Besant
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.Rudyard Kipling
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.Muriel Spark
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.Phyllis Dille
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.Dora Russell
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.James Arthur Baldwin
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.Thomas Andrew Bailey
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.Franklin P. Jones
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
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.Peter Ustinov
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.Unknown
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
Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.Francois Fenelon
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
Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected.Robert Orben
My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.Groucho Marx
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.Hodding Carter Jr.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.George Gilde
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.Doug Larson
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - - And let the air out of their tires.Dorothy Parke
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
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
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.Sandy Farquha
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
