Children Quotes
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.J. B. Priestley
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.Kahlil Gibran
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.Alice Thomas Ellis
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.Erma Bombeck
Children need models more than they need critics.Jeseph Joubert
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
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.Betty Naomi Friedan
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.Haida Indian saying
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Cente
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain
Children are all foreigners.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.John Gray
My mother loved children - She would have given anything if I had been one.Groucho Marx
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.Bill Cosby
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - Or even sinful - That you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes.Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.
You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.Audrey Hepburn
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 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
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.Fran Lebowitz
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
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
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.Don Barthelme
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.Norman Douglas
My music is best understood by children and animals.Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.John Wilmot
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children Well, she and I were.Mort Sahl
Children have more need of models than of critics.Joseph Joubert
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.Maxim Gorky
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
Children are our most valuable natural resource.Herbert Clark Hoove
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.Daniel Webste
Pressure? This is just a football match. When you do not know how to feed your children, that is pressure.Jose Luis Chilavert, Goal keeper for Paraguay, said during France 98 World Cup (soccer/football)
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.Ogden Nash
