Children Quotes
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
Children have more need of models than of critics.Joseph Joubert
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.John Updike
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.A. J. Toynbee
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
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.Muriel Spark
As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that - Thank Heaven - Nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.J. B. Priestley
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
They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.Roger Rosenblatt
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.James Thurbe
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.John Gray
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - That work I abhor - Then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.Katherine Paterson
Adults are just children who earn money.Kenneth Branaugh
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
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
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.Rev. Theodore Hegburgh
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.Norman Douglas
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.Otto von Bismarck
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
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.Sir Walter Besant
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.Ursula K. LeGuin
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.Quentin
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.Juvenal
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
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.Jess Lai
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.Euripides, Phrixus
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
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
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 H. Humphrey
If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.Robert Joseph Bob Dole
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
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
