Children Quotes
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children - - Unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide - And - Seek.Bill Cosby, Time Flies
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
Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - Depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.Author Unknown
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.Dora Russell
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
Children need models more than they need critics.Jeseph Joubert
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.Louis Johannot
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fai
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.Peter Cochrane
The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.James Arthur Baldwin
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.Peter Ustinov
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.Goldie Hawn
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
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.Bertrand Russell
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.Wystan Hugh Auden
I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.Thomas Andrew Bailey
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
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
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - - And let the air out of their tires.Dorothy Parke
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.Charles Lam
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
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.John Wilmot
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Cente
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.Franklin P. Jones
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
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self - Defense.Fred Allen
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
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.Author Unknown
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.Isodore Duncan
My mother loved children - She would have given anything if I had been one.Groucho Marx
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)
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.Lady Bird Johnson
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
