Children Quotes

Charles lam - lawyers, i suppose, were children once....
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
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann von Goethe
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.
John Updike
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
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben
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
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.
George Eliot, Romola
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Koran - wealth and children are the adornment of life....
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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
Today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country. And no one is safe from it - Not you, not me and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written on it.
Nancy Davis Reagan
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
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.
Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
Katherine paterson - all of us can think of a book... that we hope...
The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.
Henry Ward Beeche
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
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
Saint Francis Xavie
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert Humphrey
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feathe
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
Her children arise up, and call her blessed.
Proverbs 3128
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
George Dennison Prentice
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.
C. S. Robinson
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
Roger Rosenblatt
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Cente
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
James Agee
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Kahlil Gibran
Grown - Ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
Margaret Mead
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Ricthe
You must work - - - we must all work To make the world worthy of its children.
Pablo Casals