Children Quotes
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.American Indian Prove
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
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
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.James Thurbe
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.George Bernard Shaw
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.Ogden Nash
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.John Dewey
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.Socrates
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.Isaac Asimov
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger Lewin
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.Robert Byrne
Adults are just children who earn money.Kenneth Branaugh
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
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
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
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
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.George Eliot
Pressure? This is just a football match. When you do not know how to feed your children, that is pressure.Jose Luis Chilavert, Goal keeper for Paraguay, said during France 98 World Cup (soccer/football)
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
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.Fran Lebowitz
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - A harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - Children into strength and athletic proportion.William Cullen Bryant
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
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
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
Lawers, I suppose, were children once.Charles Lam
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - Or even sinful - That you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes.Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.Sir Walter Besant
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.Napolean Hill
The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.John Steinbeck
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.George Bernard Shaw
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.Jess Lai
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
I remember how, in college, I got that part - Time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.Euripides, Phrixus
