Children Quotes
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
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.John Wilmot
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
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
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.Charles Dickens
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments.Napolean Hill
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.A. S. Neill, Summerhill
Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - Or even sinful - That you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes.Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.Ernest Dimnet
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
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
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 H. Humphrey
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.George Bernard Shaw
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.Brian Tracy
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.Franklin P. Jones
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - And let the air out of the tires.Dorothy Parke
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.Hodding Carter Jr.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - - - And let the air out of their tires.Dorothy Parke
Grown - Ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.Antoine de Saint - Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.James Thurbe
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.Harry S Truman
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.Koran
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.Roger Rosenblatt
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.Lyndon B. Johnson
Men, in general, are but great children.Napoleon
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
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.Saint Francis Xavie
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.Clarence Darrow
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.O. A. Battista
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.Alan Bleasdale
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.Muriel Spark
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
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.C. S. Robinson
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.Hebrew Prove
