Children Quotes

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy

I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Goldie Hawn

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

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.

John Wilmot

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

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.

Florida Scott - Maxwell

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

Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

John Wilmot

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Bertrand Russell

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

Edgar Allan Poe

All children are essentially criminal.

Denis Diderot

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S Truman

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Elias Canetti

If the children already born each have only two children themselves... in twenty - Seven to thirty - Five years the population of the world will double.

Robert H Bork

Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.

Joan Winmill Brown

I love children - - - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Nancy Mitford

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Roger Lewin

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

John Wilmot

Youth is a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children.

Sir Walter Besant

A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T. V., and those are the wrong things.

Marion Hamme

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

William Penn

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

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Isodore Duncan

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

Eric Hoffe

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Mark Twain

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Joseph Joubert

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

William H. Borah

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.

Fred Allen

Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

William Faulkne

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

John Adams

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.

Quentin

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

George F. Will

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.

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