Children Quotes
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.Jean Baudrillard
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
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.Laurens Van der Post
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.Evelyn Waugh
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.George Dennison Prentice
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.Anna Garlin Spence
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.Roger Rosenblatt
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.Peter Ustinov
Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If the children already born each have only two children themselves... in twenty - Seven to thirty - Five years the population of the world will double.Robert H Bork
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.C. S. Robinson
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.Saint Francis Xavie
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.Robert Byrne
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.William Feathe
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.Harry S Truman
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children - - Unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide - And - Seek.Bill Cosby, Time Flies
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children Well, she and I were.Mort Sahl
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.Henry Ward Beeche
Rigidly organized pre - School classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self - Image of marginality and failure.Valerie Polakow
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.Pope John Paul II
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
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
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.Alan Bleasdale
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
Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected.Robert Orben
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.Rev. Theodore Hegburgh
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots the other, wings.Hodding Carte
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.Wystan Hugh Auden
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.Irish Prove
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.M. Grundle
