Children Quotes
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.Nancy Mitford
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.Ellen Goodman
It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
Our children change uswhether they live or not.Lois McMaster Bujold
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
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
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.Haim Ginott
Children should neither be seen nor heard from - Ever again.W. C. Fields
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.Franklin P. Jones
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
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.Ricthe
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
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
How to Raise your I. Q. by Eating Gifted Children.Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Kelle
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
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.Maxim Gorky
Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.W. H. Auden
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.Hodding Carte
Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.William John Bennett
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.Erma Bombeck
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
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.Thornton
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.John Gray
Never have children, only grandchildren.Gore Vidal
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
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.Henry Ward Beeche
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.Euripides
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.Wystan Hugh Auden
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 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
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
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
