Children Quotes
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.Ricthe
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.Sir Walter Besant
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.Black Elk
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.Brian Sutton - Smith
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.Sam Levenson
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Jesse Louis Jackson
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.Ogden Nash
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.Sam Levenson
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.Ogden Nash
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
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.George Eliot, Romola
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.James Thurbe
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.Marcelene Cox
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
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
Today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country. And no one is safe from it - Not you, not me and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written on it.Nancy Davis Reagan
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.Maya Angelou
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.Richard Whately
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.Phyllis Dille
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - A harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - Children into strength and athletic proportion.William Cullen Bryant
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.Mort Sahl
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.Gerald R. Ford
A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T. V., and those are the wrong things.Marion Hamme
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
All children are essentially criminal.Denis Diderot
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
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
