Children Quotes
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.Sandy Farquha
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.Walt Disney
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
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.Sir Walter Besant
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.James Agee
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin Franklin
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.Rudyard Kipling
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz
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
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
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
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.Anatole Broyard
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger Lewin
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.Clarence Darrow
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Mrs. Sigourney
The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.Henry Ward Beeche
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.Lavina Christensen Fugal
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.Ellen Goodman
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.Phyllis Dille
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.Carl Jung
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.Michel de Montaigne
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.Ernest Dimnet
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.Angela Schwindt
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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
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
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.Maxim Gorky
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Men, in general, are but great children.Napoleon
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
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
