Children Quotes

Ogden nash - a family is a unit composed not only of children...
Henry ward beeche - children are the hands by which we take hold of...
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
David Richerby
They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.
Roger Rosenblatt
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
Yiddish Prove
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
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.
Jean Caldwell
Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Daniel Webste
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
Roy Blount Jr.
I remember how, in college, I got that part - Time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Muriel Spark
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.
Louis Johannot
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.
Jess Lai
Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - Depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.
Author Unknown
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
Isaac Asimov
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
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
Whittaker Chambers
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
Walter Lippmann
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.
Benjamin Spock
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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
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
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Arthur Baldwin
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
James Arthur Baldwin
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann von Goethe
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.
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)
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Joseph Joubert
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.
Quentin