Children Quotes
The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.Charles Buxton
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Kelle
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.Michael Levine
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.Sam Levenson
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.Henry Ward Beeche
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
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.Saint Thomas Aquinas
The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.Henry Ward Beeche
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.Wystan Hugh Auden
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.St. Francis Xavie
Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.Johann von Goethe
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.Erma Bombeck
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.Mort Sahl
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.Norman Douglas
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.Joan Winmill Brown
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.John J. Plomp
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.Sir Walter Besant
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.George Eliot
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
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.Juvenal
We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.American Indian Prove
The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.John Steinbeck
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.Carl Jung
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.Lady Bird Johnson
Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected.Robert Orben
Our children change us? whether they live or not.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.William Feathe
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.Unknown
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
How to Raise your I. Q. by Eating Gifted Children.Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983)
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.Jess Lai
Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.William John Bennett
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.Isodore Duncan
