Children Quotes
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert Humphrey
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.John Dryden
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - That work I abhor - Then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.Katherine Paterson
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
All children are essentially criminal.Denis Diderot
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.Norman Douglas
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
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.George F. Will
Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.Judith Pugh
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.Hodding Carter Jr.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Jesse Louis Jackson
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
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.Isodore Duncan
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time)
The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.Charles Buxton
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray
What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.St. Francis Xavie
Children need models more than they need critics.Jeseph Joubert
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Lydia Sigourney
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.Author Unknown
He who teaches children learns more than they do.German Prove
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.John Wilmot
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.Saint Francis Xavie
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.Haim Ginott
Adults are just children who earn money.Kenneth Branaugh
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.Eric Hoffe
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.Gloria Steinem
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.Sam Levenson
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
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.William Feathe
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
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
