Children Quotes

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

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

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.

I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.

Hodding Carte

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.

Barbara Bush

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Jean Baudrillard

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

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

Max Born

All children are essentially criminal.

Denis Diderot

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.

George Eliot, Romola

It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?

Alan Perlis

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.

Unknown

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Julius Robert Oppenheime

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

Maxim Gorky

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S Truman

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

Lady Bird Johnson

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

Robert Orben

Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Benjamin Franklin

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.

Valerie Polakow

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

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

He who teaches children learns more than they do.

German Prove

Grown - Ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943

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

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

Adults are just children who earn money.

Kenneth Branaugh