Children Quotes

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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
Democritus

My breasts have gone saggy after three children so I wanted to perk them up and make them smaller [on having breast reduction surgery]
Jordan

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

Children always turn to the light.
David Hare

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

When I first heard it i thought it was the most boring phrase in the entire world. Now I'm a real anorak about it. It means the future. It means my children's, children's children, and if you don't think seriously about that, then you don't deserve to live [on sustainable development]
Jonathan Dimbleby

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

When you're the mother of small children, life becomes a holiday.
Kate Winslet

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honour nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter

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

I was a witch with my children, truly, about television. I used to say you can watch a half hour of television a day.
Teresa Heinz-Kerry

The booger jokes. And my editor always takes out four letter words when I put then in the children's books. And the sex parts [on the difference between kids and adults books]
Meg Cabot

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
Eric Hoffer

I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children.
Mary Wortley Montagu

I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, 'Never mind! I'll do it myself.'
Erma Bombeck

Curiosity in children Nature has provided to remove the ignorance they were born with
John Locke

I seem, for my own part, to see the benevolence of the Deity more clearly in the pleasures of very young children than in anything else in the world
William Paley

'I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much c*** as I used to.'
Pamela Anderson

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Red Cloud

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

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play
Nastassja Kinski

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Miguel De Cervantes

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

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

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben

I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it [raise their children] all the time.
Eric Braeden

It's like your children, you have got to keep entertaining them [on his training technique]
Nigel Worthington

I'm not interested in the fallacy of the Hollywood relationship - We have perfect children who never cry, we never have problems; we never argue.
Reese Witherspoon

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

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Bible

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase

Children are what the mothers are
Walter Landor

If necessary, I would go out on the streets and beg rather than send them [his children] to the school next to where I live.
Oliver Letwin

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil Gaiman

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
Tim Allen

My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky

TV: It's 11 o'clock, do you know where your children are?
Homer: I Told You Last Night! NO!
Homer Simpson

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him [Lennox Lewis]. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
Mike Tyson

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

Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.
Peter Ustinov

About seven children in every classroom are estimated to be victimised to some extent. That is quite a statistic... a significant proportion of the population.
Wendy Craig

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

The Pope lived his faith through constantly reaching out, demonstrating that we are all God's children.
Dave Camp

It is a statue that draws children as hot toast does butter. [on Bobby Charlton statue]
Linda Charlton

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

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure.
Black Elk

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

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
Dwight Moody



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