Children Quotes
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.George Eliot, Romola, 1863
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
Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected.Robert Orben
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
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.William Penn
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.George Eliot, Romola
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.Aristotle
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.
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.John Adams
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.George Gilde
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
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
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.Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.Mark Twain
A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.Richard Kehl
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
My mother loved children - She would have given anything if I had been one.Groucho Marx
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.O. A. Battista
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.Kahlil Gibran
We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.Max Born
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger Lewin
I love children - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.Nancy Mitford
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.John Dewey
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.William Faulkne
Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.John Wilmot
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.Euripides, Phrixus
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.Sir Walter Besant
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.Harold S. Hulbert
The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.John Steinbeck
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.Nancy Mitford
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.Irish Prove
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
