Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.
Anne Frank
We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.
Chuck Palahniuk
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.
Irish Proverb
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it isTo have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare
We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate what ever aroused curiosity.
Orville Wright
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne
How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Charles Darwin
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Our children change us... whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.
Lawana Blackwell
Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
Lawana Blackwell
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
George W. Bush
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore Vidal
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
Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert
We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
Christopher Morley
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
Albert Einstein
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
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
Benjamin Spock
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.
Daniel Raeburn
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
William Mckinley
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
Jane Howard
I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.
Rodney Dangerfield
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Maria Montessori
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
Benjamin Spock
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone
It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.
Lewis Thomas
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Mary MacCracken
Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
Michelle Pfeiffer
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
When television producers say it is the parents' obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption.
Gregg Easterbrook
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
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
Children aren't dogs; adults aren't gods.
Haitian Proverb
Fundamentalists never wonder why, if herpes is sent by "god" to scourge "adulterers," whooping cough and measles weren't purposely created to lambaste children.
Fred Woodworth
Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.
John Bradshaw
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Robert Orben
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Marilyn French
A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?
Harvey Fierstein
Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.
Shinichi Suzuki
I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.
Mike Tyson
Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.
William Bennett
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen
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
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
Marcelene Cox
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
All children have creative power.
Brenda Ueland
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
W. Somerset Maugham
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
P. J. O'Rourke
Next to that kid, we all look like onions.
Dustin Hoffman
We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
Roy L. Smith
Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
David O. Mckay
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
William Jennings Bryan
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis Diller
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
Frank A. Clark
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
Bill Watterson
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
Mary Mccarthy
Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.
Charles Barkley
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
Alice Miller
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas
Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John J. Plomp
Adopted kids are such a pain - you have to teach them how to look like you.
Gilda Radner
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Margaret Mead
A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Richard Whately
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Dr. Haim Ginott
Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.
Dr. James C. Dobson
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
Peter Ustinov
When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women? In some ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever. And the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public exposure.
Anna Quindlen
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
Frank A. Clark
We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards.
John W. Holt, Jr.
Wanna get to know God?...Get to know His Kids!
Donna A. Favors
Don't treat me like a little girl.
Britney Spears
Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in, we use their fears as handles to manipulate them and get them to do what we want.
John W. Holt, Jr.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
William Bennett
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Rabbinical Saying
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
Francois Fenelon
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran Lebowitz
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Anne Sullivan
What´s the most especial thing about being a father? Everything.
Viggo Mortensen
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
Mark Twain
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Maria Montessori
All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.
John Mortimer
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Dick Cavett
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles De Lint
The hardest people to convince they are at retirement age are children at bedtime.
Shannon Fife
Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori.
Howard Gardner
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow
Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.
Newton N. Minow
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.
Benjamin Spock
Every sleepy boy and girl in every bed around the world ~~ Can hear the stars up in the sky whispering a lullaby.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.
Jill Eikenberry
A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad.
John Andrew Holmes
The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.
Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent.
Elinor Smith
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.
Sri Chinmoy
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
Walt Disney
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John Ruskin
He who teaches children learns more than they do.
German Proverb
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
John Adams
Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the Invisible Children.
John Wooden
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson
It's about acts of giving, not just adoration. The children give the flowers.
Tony Somlai
When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'
Rita Rudner
You eat meat and you kill things that are better than you are, and then you say how bad, and even killers, your children are. You made your children what they are....
Charles Manson
It is an issue of attitude change. You cannot preserve cattle and let your children die.
Angelique Kidjo
Congress has allowed the need of big corporations before the need of our children.
Bob Filner
I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.
Shirley Bassey
Children see things very well sometimes -- and idealists even better.
Lorraine Hansberry
The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
Goldie Hawn
We are creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love!The Children of the revolution.
Moulin Rouge
The SS men said, 'Do you really want to go with your children?' They said, 'Yes' and went to their death.
Walter Feiden
We can show children we care about them, but still keep appropriate boundaries.
Joan Vienna
Children being left alone in vehicles is a very big problem.
Janette Fennell
All around, it's a good thing. She gets to get out and meet even more children who have the same disabilities and abilities.
Tracey Baker
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
Charles Lamb
A licensed plumber would have found that, and my children would not have been endangered.
John Miller
This is about the children, not petty politics. That is exactly what is going to hurt our children.
Margaret Ponga
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
Charles Reade
It's much easier to do without having to think about how it will benefit our children or not benefit our children.
Barb Quinn
The most profound effect on children of any entertainer of his time.
Jim Henson
We're not doing anything to help those children excel.
Luke Selking
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Anne Sullivan
I think it will be an important tool for the safety of children.
Roger Anderson
I just love children of this age. There is no edge to them at all, they are delightful.
Colin Walker
I started the race to bring awareness and funding to needy children.
Don Whitney
Ellen called me and insisted that I take the children.
Helen Joseph
I believed that the government would protect the children being abused. I believed they would act quickly. I was wrong.
Justin Berry
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Peter Ustinov
I'm not somebody who believes that darkness is something that should necessarily be hidden from children or anything like that.
Crispin Glover
Incredibly, the impact of HIV and AIDS on children is still being ignored.
Jasmine Whitbread
I know schools are not collection agencies but feeding our children is key.
Mary Cochran
We are concerned about the children caught by a recent change in the law.
Maura Harty
All children are essentially criminal.
Denis Diderot
All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
Hillary Clinton
Can you imagine children in crisis and all in one bedroom? It's not ideal.
Theresa Bizoe
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
Elain Heffner
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
Bill Bryson
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
Eric Hoffer
Children will be caught in the middle of this conflict.
Lisa Miller
We are confirming that Brad Pitt is in the process of becoming the adoptive father of both children.
Cindy Guagenti
They're not given the chance that a lot of other children are given. They deserve better.
Alexis Adamjee
The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.'
Lillian Carter
He's very strategic, has a lot of compassion for children, and we just love him.
Janette Fennell
Living with small children is like having a bowling alley set up in your brain.
Martin Mull
Our children are watching us live, and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.
Wilferd A. Peterson
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky
This is not being aimed at children. This is a media platform that's going to appeal to adults of all ages.
Alan Duncan
The adults had just as much fun as the children.
Dorita Fuller
Cutting some management and fluff will not hurt our children.
Mike Bidwell
It would never be both Michael and myself running because as a mother ... I would never put my children through this.
Paula Zahn
Very often we find that it is in fact the parents, not the children, that have separation issues.
Jeffrey Solomon
Out of the clear blue sky, they called and said we've got three children for you.
Sarah Allen
It's scary to have all them inmates with all them children around. I'm not saying that they are going to attack the children, but there's always that chance.
Patrick Miller
For children, whether they're young or old, it's all about a schedule.
Soledad O'brien
It looked like they were living in there and there were children in there crying.
Sandy Gutierrez
I do not know of any other person that does so much for the children of the community.
Tony Dileo
They are not only stealing from the school. They are stealing music from the children.
James Paoletti
A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.
Adrian Anderson
The children are very irritable. They may be jittery; they cry more; they don?t feed well.
Curtis Oddo
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
James Thurber
If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.
Dick Cavett
I have got two children.
Charlotte Dodds
There have been incidents in the desert and I have small children.
Patrick Sheehan
Takes a lot of imagination, and frankly, my imagination was pretty much absorbed by my children.
Jill Clayburgh
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