Children Quotes

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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
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
Mark Twain
Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.
Unknown
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
Haim Ginott
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - And let the air out of the tires.
Dorothy Parke
Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.
Judith Pugh
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
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
Charles Dickens
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children - - Unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide - And - Seek.
Bill Cosby, Time Flies
I love children - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Nancy Mitford
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.
Otto von Bismarck
Our children change us? whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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)
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Ursula K. LeGuin
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Sonia Taitz
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.
Lillian
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.
Valerie Polakow
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.
Fred Allen
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.
Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.
Steve Allen
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott - Maxwell
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.
John Updike
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
H Hahn Blavatsky
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
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
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
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