Children Quotes
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.Charles Lam
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.Elias Canetti
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.Bill Cosby
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
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.Haim Ginott
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
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children Well, she and I were.Mort Sahl
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.Ogden Nash
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.David Friedman
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.Margaret Mead
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.Clarence Darrow
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
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
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
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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
My mother loved children - She would have given anything if I had been one.Groucho Marx
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
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
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger Lewin
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.Richard Whately
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?Peter Ustinov
Youth is a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children.Sir Walter Besant
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.John Dewey
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.Haida Indian saying
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
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.Euripides
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.Hodding Carte
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
