Children Quotes
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.Mort Sahl
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.Lady Bird Johnson
How to Raise your I. Q. by Eating Gifted Children.Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983)
You must work - - - we must all work To make the world worthy of its children.Pablo Casals
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.Edgar Allan Poe
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.Koran
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
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
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.Katharine Whitehorn
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.Charles Lam
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.Marcelene Cox
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.Johann von Goethe
Our children change us? whether they live or not.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.Albert Einstein
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain
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
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.Peter De Vries
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.Fred Rogers
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
Children are our most valuable natural resource.Herbert Clark Hoove
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
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
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 year?Peter Ustinov
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.Robert Orben
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.John J. Plomp
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.Florida Scott - Maxwell
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.George Eliot
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.Dora Russell
