Children Quotes
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.Nancy Mitford
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.Ellen Goodman
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.Bertrand Russell
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.Rudyard Kipling
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.George Bernard Shaw
For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country.Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.Gore Vidal
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song.Will Durant
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.Max Born
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
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - A harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - Children into strength and athletic proportion.William Cullen Bryant
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven".
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.William Faulkne
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
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
Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.Black Elk
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
What children take from us, they giveWe become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.Sonia Taitz
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.Lillian Bell
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.Mignon McLaughlin
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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
Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.Dr. Seuss, (as quoted in his obit in Time)
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.James Arthur Baldwin
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.John Wilmot
Of children as of procreation - The pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.Evelyn Waugh
If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole.Robert Joseph Bob Dole
