Children Quotes
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.Homer, The Iliad
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.James Agee
Our children change uswhether they live or not.Lois McMaster Bujold
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.William Feathe
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
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.Johann von Goethe
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.Thomas Szasz
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.Aristotle
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.Roger Rosenblatt
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
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.Edgar Allan Poe
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.Dr. Seuss a. k. a. Theodore Giesel
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger Lewin
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.Franklin P. Jones
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
Children are all foreigners.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.Richard Kehl
What children take from us, they give? We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
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
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)
Lawers, I suppose, were children once.Charles Lam
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
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.Hebrew Prove
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.Franklin P. Jones
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.C. S. Robinson
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.George Eliot, Romola, 1863
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
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
I love children - - - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.Nancy Mitford
