Children Quotes

Peter de vries - the value of marriage is not that adults produce...
Dan quayle, 9/18/90 - quite frankly, teachers are the only profession...
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates
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
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 must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow
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
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.
George Gilde
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
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann von Goethe
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Pope John Paul II
Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.
St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Sir Walter Besant
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken
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
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
Dora Russell
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
Don Barthelme
Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
John Locke
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
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
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
Alan Bleasdale
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.
Lillian Carter, mother of Jimmy and Billy
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Joseph Joubert
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
It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.
Lillian Bell
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
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.
Juvenal
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.
Karl Kraus
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
Gloria Steinem
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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