Children Quotes
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
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.Gerald R. Ford
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lawers, I suppose, were children once.Charles Lam
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.James Agee
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.Hodding Carte
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.Muriel Spark
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.Maya Angelou
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.St. Francis Xavie
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - A harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - Children into strength and athletic proportion.William Cullen Bryant
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.Francois Fenelon
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.Fred Rogers
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.Irish Prove
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
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
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.Franklin P. Jones
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.Clarence Darrow
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
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
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
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.James Arthur Baldwin
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger Lewin
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
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.George Bernard Shaw
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
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.Brian Aldiss
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
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.Doug Larson
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
