Children Quotes
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
My music is best understood by children and animals.Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.Margaret Mead
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
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.Pope John Paul II
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.Bill Cosby
I love children - - - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.Nancy Mitford
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
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.Alan Bleasdale
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 Humphrey
Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.Judith Pugh
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Mrs. Sigourney
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger Lewin
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
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
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
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.Henry Ward Beeche
For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country.Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Jesse Louis Jackson
We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.American Indian Prove
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
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.Sandy Farquha
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.Betty Naomi Friedan
You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.Audrey Hepburn
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.Brian Sutton - Smith
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.Black Elk
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
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.Saint Francis Xavie
