Quotes About Children & Childhood – Page 5 | GloryQuotes

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Mary Wollstonecraft

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Jimmy Carter

I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.

Giorgio Moroder

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Don Marquis

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Alexandre Dumas

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Kofi Annan

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Carol Moseley Braun

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Herbert Hoover

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

James T. Walsh

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James A. Baldwin

There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.

Cliff Stearns

My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.

Sargent Shriver

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Cyril Connolly

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

There is a "sanctity" involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

James A. Baldwin

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Billy Graham

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

William Penn

Kids - in a really good way - can talk about their differences without the baggage that adults have.

Jim McKay

For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.

George Whitefield

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Honore de Balzac

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

Anna Quindlen

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

Jim Wallis

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Zora Neale Hurston

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Norman Mailer

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

Louise Slaughter

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

William Godwin

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

Alice Hoffman

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Glenn Beck

I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

David Dinkins

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

Leon Kass

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.

Princess Diana

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Honore de Balzac

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

Jonathan Carroll

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

Kate DiCamillo

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

Hilaire Belloc

Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

Kate DiCamillo

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

William Butler Yeats