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Famous Quotes About Children

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Henry David Thoreau

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

Benjamin Disraeli

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Quotes About Childhood & Growing Up

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Honore de Balzac

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Quotes About Children & Learning

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Margaret Mead

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Erich Fromm

I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.

Laura Bush

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

Carol Bellamy

More Children Quotes

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Mohandas Gandhi

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

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

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

Jean de la Bruyere

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

William Shakespeare

Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

James Russell Lowell

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Mohandas Gandhi

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

Charles Baudelaire

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

Laurence J. Peter

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

George Bernard Shaw

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

Marilyn vos Savant

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

John Boehner

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Samuel Richardson

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

Jeanette Winterson

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Henry Ward Beecher

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Herbert Hoover

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

Ella Maillart

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

James Broughton

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