Children Quotes
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that they just about throw up.Barbara Bush
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 year?Peter Ustinov
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.Eric Hoffe
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.Thomas Andrew Bailey
Men, in general, are but great children.Napoleon
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
Your children need your presence more than your presents.Jesse Louis Jackson
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.John Gray
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.Isaac Asimov
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.Juvenal
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert Humphrey
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.Irish Prove
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
Her children arise up, and call her blessed.Proverbs 3128
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected.Robert Orben
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.Anatole Broyard
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 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
Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom - Discipline, tolerance, honesty - Is one of the most important ways children learn how to function in society at large.Eloise Salholz
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.John Updike
Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.Clay Aiken
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.Ricthe
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 have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.La Bruyere
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.A. J. Toynbee
If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example.Sir Walter Besant
Pretty much all the honest truth - Telling there is in the world is done by children.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.Unknown
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.James Arthur Baldwin
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.George Eliot
Familiarity breeds contempt - And children.Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
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
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.Kahlil Gibran
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.Ernest Dimnet
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.Sandy Farquha
