Children Quotes

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Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
Edgar Allan Poe
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
Mark Twain
The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
Charles Buxton
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.
Quentin
Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
Whittaker Chambers
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
Koran
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
Her children arise up, and call her blessed.
Proverbs 3128
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
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Fran Lebowitz
We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
George F. Will
We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.
Max Born
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Euripides, Phrixus
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
Men, in general, are but great children.
Napoleon
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Muriel Spark
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
O. A. Battista
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.
John Wilmot
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
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Ernest Dimnet
Adults are just children who earn money.
Kenneth Branaugh
I love children - - - Especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
Nancy Mitford
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
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
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.
John Dewey
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben
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 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