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
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.Robert Orben
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.Evelyn Waugh
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.Otto von Bismarck
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.O. A. Battista
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.Alice Thomas Ellis
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.Charles Dickens
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
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.Richard Whately
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain
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 the hands by which we take hold of heaven.Henry Ward Beeche
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.Sam Levenson
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
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.Betty Naomi Friedan
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.Florida Scott - Maxwell
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.Michael Levine
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time)
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.Euripides
You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.Audrey Hepburn
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
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.Cornelius Stam
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.Peter Cochrane
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.Haim Ginott
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.John J. Plomp
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.Michel de Montaigne
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.Peter Ustinov
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.David Richerby
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.Saint Francis Xavie
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.Katharine Whitehorn
There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.Oliver L. North
