Children Quotes

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)

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Ellen Goodman

Today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country. And no one is safe from it - Not you, not me and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written on it.

Nancy Davis Reagan

Lawers, I suppose, were children once.

Charles Lam

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

George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (1916) preface

The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.

John Steinbeck

Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.

Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)

Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

Evelyn Waugh

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

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Julius Robert Oppenheime

It is about a socialist, anti - Family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Pat Robertson, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

Roger Rosenblatt

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

Doug Larson

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

W. B. Yeats

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

Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - - They terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.

Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Haim Ginott

Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.

John Dewey

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

Harry S Truman

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

William Feathe

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

Yiddish Prove

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.

Ogden Nash

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

Groucho Marx

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Michael Levine

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

C. S. Robinson

Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.

Mark Twain

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

H. L. Mencken

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Ogden Nash

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

Her children arise up, and call her blessed.

Proverbs 3128

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Aristotle

Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.

Unknown

Our children change us? whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

Max Born

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

St. Francis Xavie

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