Children Quotes

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Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
Juvenal
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
Adults are just children who earn money.
Kenneth Branaugh
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
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
Richard Whately
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Shirley Mount Hufstedle
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
Evelyn Waugh
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
Yiddish Prove
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time)
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Grown - Ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint - Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.
Laurens Van der Post
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.
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.
Quentin
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
Harry S Truman
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
A. J. Toynbee
Her children arise up, and call her blessed.
Proverbs 3128
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Kahlil Gibran
For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country.
Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
Eric Hoffe
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurbe
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Euripides, Phrixus
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
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Brian Tracy
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven".
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
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben
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
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 H. Humphrey
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
Charles Lam
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
H Hahn Blavatsky
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Benjamin Franklin
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
Saint Francis Xavie