Children Quotes

Children need models more than they need critics.

Jeseph Joubert

A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.

Otto von Bismarck

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

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.

Alastair Reid

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

Benjamin Franklin

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

James Agee

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

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

Euripides, Phrixus

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up.

Barbara Bush

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

Franklin P. Jones

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

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

Doug Larson

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

Michel de Montaigne

It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?

Alan Perlis

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 easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.

Maxim Gorky

Children should neither be seen nor heard from - Ever again.

W. C. Fields

There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

Oliver L. North

My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

Yiddish Prove

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.

Shirley Mount Hufstedle

Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night - She was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question - Is this all.

Betty Naomi Friedan

Lawers, I suppose, were children once.

Charles Lam

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.

Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B. C.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

Clarence Darrow

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

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

Dora Russell

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

Albert Einstein

It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

John Gray

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

H Hahn Blavatsky

Her children arise up, and call her blessed.

Proverbs 3128

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney