Children Quotes

The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.

Brian Sutton - Smith

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Rev. Theodore Hegburgh

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

Angela Schwindt

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

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Elias Canetti

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.

Louis Johannot

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

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - That work I abhor - Then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

Katherine Paterson

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Euripides, Phrixus

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Ursula K. LeGuin

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Brian Aldiss

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Margaret Mead

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

I love children - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Nancy Mitford

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

Haida Indian saying

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

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 only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

G. K. Chesterton

Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.

Judith Pugh

Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - Depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.

Author Unknown

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Norman Douglas

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 H. Humphrey

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

Steve Allen

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.

Quentin

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

Eric Hoffe

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.

Koran

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Mark Twain

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

Doug Larson

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best.

Erma Bombeck

The planting of trees is the least self - Centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Thornton

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

William Penn

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Brian Tracy