Children Quotes
Children should neither be seen nor heard from - Ever again.W. C. Fields
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
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.Sam Levenson
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.M. Grundle
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.John Adams
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.Ogden Nash
Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.Cornelius Stam
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.Lady Bird Johnson
All children are essentially criminal.Denis Diderot
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
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.Sandy Farquha
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
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
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Lydia Sigourney
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.Isaac Asimov
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.Johann von Goethe
He who teaches children learns more than they do.German Prove
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.Napolean Hill
Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.Scottish Prove
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.Black Elk
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - That work I abhor - Then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.Katherine Paterson
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
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
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
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 have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.Ernest Dimnet
How to Raise your I. Q. by Eating Gifted Children.Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983)
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.Koran
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.George Gilde
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.Gloria Steinem
