Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
DemocritusMy breasts have gone saggy after three children so I wanted to perk them up and make them smaller [on having breast reduction surgery]
JordanChildren will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. [Wise words indeed]
Richard EvansChildren always turn to the light.
David HareParents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden NashWhen 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 DimblebyEducation commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea BallouWhen you're the mother of small children, life becomes a holiday.
Kate WinsletIt 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 CarterPeople with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
Mary McCarthyI 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-KerryThe 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 CabotThe 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 HofferI wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children.
Mary Wortley MontaguI'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, 'Never mind! I'll do it myself.'
Erma BombeckCuriosity in children Nature has provided to remove the ignorance they were born with
John LockeI 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 AndersonI 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 CloudIt 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 WhittakerIt's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play
Nastassja KinskiNo fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
Miguel De CervantesParents, 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 HowardThat's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them
George BestNever raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert OrbenI feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it [raise their children] all the time.
Eric BraedenIt's like your children, you have got to keep entertaining them [on his training technique]
Nigel WorthingtonI'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 WitherspoonThe 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 WilderMine 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.
BibleI married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara BushChristmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen ChaseChildren are what the mothers are
Walter LandorIf 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 LetwinIt 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 GaimanNo matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-MaxwellWomen 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 AllenMy music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor StravinskyTV: It's 11 o'clock, do you know where your children are?
Homer: I Told You Last Night! NO!
Homer SimpsonI 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 TysonIf children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheParents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.
Peter UstinovAbout 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 CraigThe first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence DarrowThe Pope lived his faith through constantly reaching out, demonstrating that we are all God's children.
Dave CampIt is a statue that draws children as hot toast does butter. [on Bobby Charlton statue]
Linda CharltonFew things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
Doug LarsonGrown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure.
Black ElkHappiness 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 SzaszIt 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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