Children Quotes

Lyndon b. johnson - a compassionate government keeps faith with the...
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Brian Tracy
Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.
Steve Allen
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
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
Roy Blount Jr.
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
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.
Ogden Nash
Mark twain - providence protects children and idiots. i know...
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
Alan Bleasdale
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
John Locke
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
Fred rogers - play is often talked about as if it were a relief...
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.
Otto von Bismarck
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
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
Alice Thomas Ellis
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
Evelyn Waugh
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.
Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
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
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
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Harold S. Hulbert
Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - Depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.
Author Unknown
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.
St. Francis Xavie
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.
Lillian Bell
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
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country.
Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.
Will Durant
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
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
Children need models more than they need critics.
Jeseph Joubert
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
Jean De La Bruyere
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
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
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.
Benjamin Spock