Quotes About Children & Childhood – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Dennis Potter

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Margaret Mead

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

William Penn

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

Lynn Johnston

I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

Sydney Pollack

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

Margaret Mead

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

John Locke

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

George Santayana

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.

Paul Weyrich

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It puts limits on criminals' rights to destroy unborn children without the permission of the woman.

Lindsey Graham

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Michel de Montaigne

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

John Buchanan Robinson

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Rabindranath Tagore

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

Cornelia Funke

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Heraclitus

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography.

John Ashcroft

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Marian Wright Edelman

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

Matt Groening

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

Garrison Keillor

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Frank Howard Clark

I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.

Peter Maxwell Davies

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

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

John Locke

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

Leon Kass

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

Elizabeth Bowen

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Samuel Richardson

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig van Beethoven