Children Quotes
The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.Andrew H. Malcolm
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.Bertrand Russell
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.Hebrew Prove
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Cesare Pavese
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
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.Roger Lewin
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.Anatole Broyard
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.Saint Thomas Aquinas
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.Kahlil Gibran
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.Isaac Asimov
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.Jean Caldwell
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
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.John Locke
Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - Depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.Author Unknown
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.John J. Plomp
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.Benjamin Spock
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.Franklin P. Jones
Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.Jess Lai
Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.Steve Allen
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.George Eliot
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.Robert Orben
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
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.Unknown
Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.W. H. Auden
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
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.Peacemaker, founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, (ca. 1000 AD)
Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.John Wilmot
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.George Gilde
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.A. J. Toynbee
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
He who teaches children learns more than they do.German Prove
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.Juvenal
