Children Quotes

Charles lam - lawers, i suppose, were children once....
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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
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
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann von Goethe
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
Children need models more than they need critics.
Jeseph Joubert
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.
Thomas Andrew Bailey
Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
Francois Fenelon
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
Children should neither be seen nor heard from - Ever again.
W. C. Fields
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
Alice Thomas Ellis
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.
Erma Bombeck
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.
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Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
Katharine Whitehorn
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Michael Levine
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
John Adams
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.
Author Unknown
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.
Lillian
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.
Brian Aldiss
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
Maxim Gorky
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
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
Eric Hoffe
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
Mary McCarthy
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott - Maxwell
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
Charles Dickens
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
William H. Borah
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.
Fred Allen
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
Franklin P. Jones
Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom - Discipline, tolerance, honesty - Is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.
Eloise Salholz
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
Dr. Seuss a. k. a. Theodore Giesel