Children Quotes

Richard whately - a man who gives his children habits of industry...
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 begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
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
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
Dr. Seuss a. k. a. Theodore Giesel
Ogden nash - oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they...
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.
Napolean Hill
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G. K. Chesterton
Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
W. H. Auden
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Lillian carter, mother of jimmy and billy - sometimes when i look at my children i say to...
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
Harry S Truman
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.
Valerie Polakow
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S Truman
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
Juvenal
Youth is a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children.
Sir Walter Besant
Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.
William John Bennett
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
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
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - They terrify me. Scientists are no problem against them I feel quite confident.
James P. Hogan
Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.
Alastair Reid
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.
Hodding Carte
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Pope John Paul II
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
William H. Borah
Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.
Steve Allen
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
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.
Erma Bombeck
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
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter Ustinov
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
Franklin P. Jones
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
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Kelle