Children Quotes
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.Fran Lebowitz
Pressure? This is just a football match. When you do not know how to feed your children, that is pressure.Jose Luis Chilavert, Goal keeper for Paraguay, said during France 98 World Cup (soccer/football)
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.Phyllis Dille
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
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.Margaret Mead
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
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.
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
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
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle - Aged children for signs of improvement.Florida Scott - Maxwell
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 Humphrey
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.Homer, The Iliad
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.Jean Caldwell
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.Walt Disney
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.John Dryden
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
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
Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.Judith Pugh
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.M. Grundle
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
My music is best understood by children and animals.Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.Peter Ustinov
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.Gloria Steinem
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.Edgar Allan Poe
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
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.Thomas Andrew Bailey
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.James Arthur Baldwin
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
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.William H. Borah
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.George Gilde
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.Author Unknown
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
All children are essentially criminal.Denis Diderot
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.H Hahn Blavatsky
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.George Eliot, Romola
