Children Quotes
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children Well, she and I were.Mort Sahl
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children - - Unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide - And - Seek.Bill Cosby, Time Flies
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
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.Jean Baudrillard
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
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
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
Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.Judith Pugh
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.Scottish Prove
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.Robert Orben
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.M. Grundle
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.A. J. Toynbee
He who teaches children learns more than they do.German Prove
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.Sam Levenson
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
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
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.Richard Whately
My music is best understood by children and animals.Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
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
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.Michael Levine
Men, in general, are but great children.Napoleon
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.Norman Douglas
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.Mignon McLaughlin
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.John J. Plomp
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.Peter Cochrane
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.Katharine Whitehorn
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.George Bernard Shaw
What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
