Children quotes

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton Wilder

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Horace Mann

Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.
Sam Austin

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
Audrey Hepburn

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
Roseanne Barr

I was deeply saddened by the death of Pope John Paul II.

Quite apart from his role as a spiritual guide to more than a billion men, women and children, he was a tireless advocate of peace, a true pioneer in interfaith dialogue and a strong force for critical self-evaluation by the Church itself.
[on Pope John Paul II]
Kofi Annan

I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.
Sam Taylor-Wood

Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognised their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.
John Gibbon

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

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Alexander Chase

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik Erikson

Children blessings seem, but torments are
Thomas Otway

An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for
Kim Campbell

I told them to go home, look at their wives and children and say 'How do you think your daddy played today?' I won't be able to look my family in the eye after that.
Stuart Pearce

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
Doris Day

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adult
Thomas Szasz

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
Mary McCarthy

God is dead! Heaven is empty - Weep, children, you no longer have a father.
Gerard De Nerval

Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children
Margaret Oliphant

Some kind hearts have lived in every generation, but it is only within a few years that the older Christians have come into such perfect love and sympathy with children's needs as to set apart a Sunday for their especial benefit
Susan Teall Perry

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
Mary Wortley Montagu

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

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea Ballou

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
H Jackson Brown Jr

She was like the embodiment of all women who have felt an astonished protest because their children have died before them.
Rebecca West

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves
Ernest Dimnet

My plan is to have children and turn my back on work completely. When I start having babies, I'll have as many as I can.
Holly Willoughby

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese

'Make America what we want it to be — a literate country and a hopefuller country.' —Washington, D.C., Jan. 11, 2001

'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000

'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000

'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000

'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000

'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000

BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16) -Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000

'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000

'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000

'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'

-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000

'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000

'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?' -Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.' -ibid

'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
George W Bush

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. [Wise words indeed]
Richard Evans

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
Russell Baker

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked by children.
Richard Henry Dana

Children were chasing an idiot boy up the village street to the churchyard
Ellen Glasgow

It certainly seems contradictory of the [local] council to be encouraging parents to stop using their cars to take children to school but at the same time taking so long about the safe routes initiative.
Sally Whittaker

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
Diana Princess Of Wales

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller

Children and fooles speake true
John Lyly

I really love my job, but juggling strange hours with two children is a bit like being a hamster on a wheel. A very tired hamster.
Fiona Phillips

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig Van Beethoven

I want my children and grandchildren to see what I look like now.
Kylie Bax

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
Jonathan Swift

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash

It has also contained come of the very best, most accessible writing for children, by writers who seldom get the acknowledgement they deserve [on Fantasy genre]
Terry Pratchett

That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them
George Best

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

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Amos Bronson Alcott

With so many mind-bytes to be downloaded, so many mental codons to be replicated, it is no wonder that child brains are gullible, open to almost any suggestion, vulnerable to subversion, easy prey to Moonies, Scientologists and nuns. Like immune-deficient patients, children are wide open to mental infections that adults might brush off without effort.
Richard Dawkins

I've got three children at home. I just timed the wickets before they went to school so they could watch... To get the wicket of Sachin is always a great pleasure and to get him bat-pad on a turning wicket is a great joy.
Shaun Udal

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.
Kahlil Gibran

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