Children Quotes
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.Hebrew Prove
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.Carl Jung
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.Ogden Nash
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
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
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
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
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.Johann von Goethe
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
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
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.Jean Caldwell
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.Ernest Dimnet
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.Dr. Seuss a. k. a. Theodore Giesel
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.Lady Bird Johnson
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
Children are our most valuable natural resource.Herbert Clark Hoove
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
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.Angela Schwindt
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.Author Unknown
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.Mort Sahl
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.Thomas Szasz
Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)
I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.Marcelene Cox
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.O. A. Battista
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
If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.Robert Joseph Bob Dole
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.Yiddish Prove
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time)
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 yea.Peter Ustinov
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.Bill Cosby
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.Benjamin Spock
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.Anna Garlin Spence
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
