Children Quotes
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.Euripides
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.Alice Thomas Ellis
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
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.Mark Twain
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.Sam Levenson
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.Jean Baudrillard
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
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.C. S. Robinson
The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.Thornton
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children Well, she and I were.Mort Sahl
Children should neither be seen nor heard from - Ever again.W. C. Fields
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.John Wilmot
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
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
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
The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.Andrew H. Malcolm
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Cente
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.Ricthe
Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.Scottish Prove
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.Clay Aiken
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.M. Grundle
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.Saint Thomas Aquinas
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.H Hahn Blavatsky
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.Brian Sutton - Smith
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.Robert Byrne
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.Rev. Theodore Hegburgh
