We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Margaret MeadMany children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
Christian Nestell BoveeThe amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
Brenda LeeDon't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
Russell BakerSo long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isadora DuncanAll of us basically want the same things: opportunity for our children, and prosperity for our families and communities.
Christine GregoireI'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, 'Never mind! I'll do it myself.'
Erma BombeckLes enfants terribles. Lit. the terrible children.
GavarniBut if thou livest in Adam, and Adam reigns in thee, then thou art not a child of God, nor born again of him. For since thou art overcome by the world, and since the prince therefore rules in thee by pride, ambition and selflove, thou art on this very account to be numbered amongst the children of the devil.
John ArndtBefore our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, what did Iraq do to us?
Susan SarandonIf we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma GandhiMan is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
Thornton WilderAn author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children
Benjamin DisraeliThe conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Jean Paul RichterIf we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.
Silvia CartwrightTruly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children
Margaret OliphantHomosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.
Sam AustinChildren require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Anne SullivanThe beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney HarrisAfter all, what is a pedestrian? He is a man who has two cars-one being driven by his wife, the other by one of his children.
Robert BradburyIt 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 WhittakerThe car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.
Arthur MillerIf you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are and that's probably what they will become. [And what if you tell them they are good...]
Louise HartChildren aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden NashThere's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.
Michael JacksonExperts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
Roseanne BarrPeople 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 MontaguI 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 TrumanI'm looking forward to trying new things, seeing a little more of my children and finally setting a date for my wedding to Dina next year.
Todd CartyI want my children and grandchildren to see what I look like now.
Kylie BaxRaising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
DemocritusMine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
Tony BlairIt 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 PaveseChildren are what the mothers are
Walter LandorBooks, the children of the brain.
Jonathan SwiftMine 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.
BibleScience is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur EddingtonIt's like your children, you have got to keep entertaining them [on his training technique]
Nigel WorthingtonThose who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
AristotleMy 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 WilloughbyInstead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Margaret MeadThe place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
Lord ByronThe quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.
Miguel FerrerI have a dream, that one day all three of my children will one day, grow up in a society where they are not judged by their race, but by their character.
Martin Luther King JrLet your children go if you want to keep them.
Malcolm ForbesIf you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van BurenIt is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley AmisThe 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 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 PaleyParents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
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