Children Quotes
Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter.Lavina Christensen Fugal
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.Ogden Nash
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.John J. Plomp
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.Rudyard Kipling
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.Roy Blount Jr.
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.Hebrew Prove
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.Benjamin Spock
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.James Arthur Baldwin
Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.W. H. Auden
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.Anna Garlin Spence
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.Sir Walter Besant
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 direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.David Friedman
Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.Alastair Reid
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
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.Dora Russell
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.Thomas Andrew Bailey
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - They terrify me. Scientists are no problem against them I feel quite confident.James P. Hogan
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.Jean Caldwell
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.Franklin P. Jones
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
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
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.Katharine Whitehorn
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - - They terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.Isodore Duncan
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.Peter Ustinov
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.Juvenal
Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - Depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.Author Unknown
