Children Quotes
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.Aristotle
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.Thornton
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.Fred Rogers
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
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
Children are our most valuable natural resource.Herbert Clark Hoove
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.Plato
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.Don Barthelme
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
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffe
It has always been the prerogative of children and half - wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half - wit remains a half - wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.Neil Gaiman, Sandman
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
I love children - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.Nancy Mitford
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
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
Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.Judith Pugh
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
Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.Unknown
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
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.Brian Tracy
There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.Oliver L. North
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
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.Gloria Steinem
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.St. Francis Xavie
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
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.Clay Aiken
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.Ricthe
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.Harold S. Hulbert
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.Dora Russell
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.Yiddish 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
