Children Quotes
The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.Henry Ward Beeche
My mother loved children - - She would have given anything if I had been one.Groucho Marx
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.Charles Lam
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.Walt Disney
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.Nancy Mitford
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.Bill Cosby
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.Shirley Mount Hufstedle
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.William Makepeace Thackeray
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.Albert Einstein
A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America.Otto von Bismarck
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.James Arthur Baldwin
Our children change us? whether they live or not.Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.George Eliot, Romola, 1863
Educate your children to self - Control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.Benjamin Franklin
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
Not only as each new year dawns, but constantly, persistently, the God of all grace urges His blood - Bought children to give themselves to Him in complete surrender and so to prove to themselves how much more blessed it is to yield to His will than to indulge in their own.Cornelius Stam
Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every yea.Peter Ustinov
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.Mignon McLaughlin
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
Children have more need of models than of critics.Joseph Joubert
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
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.George Bernard Shaw
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.Sir Walter Besant
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
Children speak in the field what they hear in the house.Scottish Prove
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.Ellen Goodman
It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.Lillian Bell
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.Elias Canetti
Children are all foreigners.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.Karl Kraus
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
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
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.Hodding Carter Jr.
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.Harry S Truman
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.Napolean Hill
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.
Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.Joan Winmill Brown
