Children Quotes

Marion hamme - a lot of children know absolutely nothing about...
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
Roy Blount Jr.
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
James Agee
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
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.
Mort Sahl
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
George F. Will
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 yea.
Peter Ustinov
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.
Clay Aiken
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.
M. Grundle
Lillian - sometimes when i look at all my children, i say...
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
Dr. Seuss a. k. a. Theodore Giesel
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
Eric Hoffe
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
William Faulkne
Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your sligthest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
Francois Fenelon
Sam levenson - the reason grandparents and grandchildren get...
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.
Jean Caldwell
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.
Euripides
I remember how, in college, I got that part - Time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Haida Indian saying
Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven".
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
John Adams
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
The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
Portuguese - Jewish Wedding Ceremony
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
George Eliot, Romola, 1863
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Don Barthelme
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
Hodding Carter Jr.
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
Franklin P. Jones
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
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw
A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two.
Richard Kehl