Children Quotes
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.O. A. Battista
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.Ernest Dimnet
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected.Robert Orben
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.Laurens Van der Post
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.H Hahn Blavatsky
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.James Arthur Baldwin
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.George Eliot, Romola
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, They think of you.H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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
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)
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.Daniel Webste
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.David Richerby
Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.Edgar Allan Poe
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.George Bernard Shaw
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.Phyllis Dille
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.Ogden Nash
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.Harold S. Hulbert
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
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
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.George Bernard Shaw
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid It must be education that does it.Alexandre Dumas
The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.Andrew H. Malcolm
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
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.Hebrew Prove
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.George Dennison Prentice
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.Sam Levenson
Never have children, only grandchildren.Gore Vidal
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.Benjamin Spock
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.Anna Garlin Spence
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.Robert Byrne
It has always been the prerogative of children and half - wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half - wit remains a half - wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.Neil Gaiman, Sandman
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
