Quotation Explorer - 'Children'

In most stories she knows, children have a mother and a father, like Iphigenia had Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, and Helen had Leda and Zeus. Sometimes they have teachers too, but not always, and they never seem to have sergeants. - M.R. Carey

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

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. - George Eliot

I'd like to thank my parents for making this night possible. And my children for making it necessary. - Victor Borge

All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror. Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one. - Valente, Catherynne

Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity - Janet Robertson

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people. - Margaret Wise Brown

I think it's hard to learn democracy when we make children prisoners until they're nineteen years old. - Mimsy Sadofsky

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory. - Russell Brand

While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology. - Newton Lee

Our children need to see that faith matters, that it's relevant to our daily situations, that it's real. - Michelle Anthony

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from. - Anne Tyler

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. - Robert A. Heinlein

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves. - C. JoyBell C.

Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together. - Sam Levenson

The point is that no matter what your feelings are, your children will be better off if you make them your central focus and work diligently at keeping the parenting relationship civil and cooperative.

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

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Unsatisfied parents produce professionally successful but personally discontent children. - Himmilicious

Peace is beyond what we see. It's a vision of how we want daily life to be for our children's children. - Jeffrey A. White

The greatest legacy a father can leave for his children before he departs is PEACE, otherwise his properties will go in PIECES sooner that he dies. - Israelmore Ayivor

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are. - Stephen J. Rivele

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. - Ernest Hemingway

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows - Erma Bombeck

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. - Lawrence Clark Powell

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children. - André Breton

I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know the torments of the song born under knife. - Roman Payne

That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents. - Ursula Hegi

Mockery is not just the interest of children; it is their second meal - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us. - Shannon L. Alder

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has a custom them to obedience and experience has made them cautious in conversation with their teachers. - Catherine the Great

[...]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force. - Plato

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning - Plato

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. - Phyllis Diller

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. - Socrates

I am a teacher. Pay close attention - this will be on the test. You don't wreck buildings. You don't take children hostage. And you don't threaten people with violence. Okay class dismissed. Looks like you fail! - yoko

As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaudy display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect was all aglitter in a setting of mass misery. - E.L. Doctrow

Even with the Boy Scouts admitting openly gay youths, its exclusion of LGBT adults teaches our children by example what the organization really thinks about them — and what they should think about themselves. - DaShanne Stokes

I regard taking healthy sea level adapted children to the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea as a form of child abuse. - Steven Magee

When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways. - Harvey Stanbrough

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. - Benjamin Franklin

We like to see our future through our children; they are the reflection of the best of ourselves. - Debasish Mridha

This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets. - Heather Armstrong

Children observe everything with caution. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Parents are the last people on Earth who ought to have children. - Samuel Butler

The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life – the sick, the needy, and the handicapped. - Hubert H. Humphrey

Never have children, only grandchildren. - Gore Vidal

No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded. - Margaret Mead

No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need. - Zia Haider Rahman

If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. - Jimmy Carter

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards. - St. Francis Xavier

Raise your children with right values and education. You may end up living frugal but you will die rich; else you will live rich but die poor. - Aditya Ajmera

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us. - Rich Mullins

And Mrs. Fox said to her children, 'I should like you to know that if it wasn't for your father we should all be dead by now. Your father is a fantastic fox.'Mr. Fox looked at his wife and she smiled. He loved her more than ever when she said things like that. - Roald Dahl

Most of the time, we don’t do therapy with children. We do therapy through children with adults who prefer not to examine themselves. - Taiki Matsuura

I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence. - Maurice Sendak

Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out. - Unknown

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

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. - Sir Francis Bacon

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird. - China Miéville

Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to. - Rossana Condoleo

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.

Each morning in every family, men, women and children, if they have nothing better to do, tell each other their dreams.We are all at the mercy of the dream and we owe it to ourselves to submit its powers to the waking state. - La Révolution Surréaliste No. 1

Children are all foreigners. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished them for it, and they cannot shirk it and be guiltless. - Isabella MacDonald Alden

It is through the institution of families that children are brought up in an orderly manner; and that the knowledge of God and of His laws is handed down from generation to generation. - Henry Thornton

I love children - especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. - Ellen Goodman

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones. - Howard Nemerov

As adults we get so entrapped in illusions and trivia, that we forget the true essence of life; and so often we need to connect with children, to understand that it is the little, priceless joys that make life beautiful and worthy. - Manprit Kaur

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. - David Richerby

Rather than standing or speaking for children, we need to stand with children speaking for themselves. We don't need a political movement for children... [we need to] build environments and policies for our collective future. - Sandra Meucci

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time. - Abi bin Abi Taleb

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Dr. Frederick Douglass 18171895

All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot

Lawers, I suppose, were children once. - Charles Lamb

Her belly ruptures full of parasites, Her eyes sink back in her skull Her butchered wrists, dangle From the edge of the bathtubHer children cuddle against her Desperate for love she cannot give - Wrath James White

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. - Plato

True children of God experience pleasure in giving. - Sunday Adelaja

Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children. - Rick Riordan

The notion of children being "kindergarten ready" is a bizarre oxymoron. It's like saying you have to know how to play the piano before you can learn how to play the piano. - Peter Campbell

Empowering children through the Word of God so excellence is the standard not the exception - Jacqui Wilson

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. - G.K. Chesterton

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. - Rainer Maria Rilke

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. - Euripides

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort. - Naomi Campbell

We raise predators by treating children as prey. - Stefan Molyneux

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

As parents, we have the responsibility and the power to create a foundational love for nutritious foods that will influence our children's choices for decades to come, setting the stage for our children, grandchildren, and future generations to flourish in wellness and health. - Leah Borski

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one. - Groucho Marx

Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way. - Michael Jackson

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. - Madeleine L'Engle

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Allowing children to fight their own battles is one of the hardest parenting skills to learn.

Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this. - Victor Devlin

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, that we neglect to give them what we DID have growing up. - James C. Dobson

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. - Madeleine L'Engle

We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles. - Milan Kundera

Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish. - Abhijit Naskar

Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of. - Tedd Tripp

We owe it to our husband or wife, our fellow workers, our children, our friends, indeed to everyone who comes into our lives, to be as happy as we can be. - Dennis Prager

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

Children with disabilities are stronger than we know, they fight the battles that most will never know. - Misti Renea Neely

There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears.

Children are not the people of tomorrow, but are people of today. They have a right to be taken seriously, and to be treated with tenderness and respect. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be. 'The unknown person' inside of them is our hope for the future. - Janusz Korczak

If your children asked you about your honesty with God, Let them look at the pictures with the person you married and was the reason they're alive...and they will understand. - RSCruz

We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. - David Brower

Children and journalists need what they don't need actually. - Raheel Farooq

The future success of a nation depends on how diligently and purposefully they educate their children. - Debasish Mridha

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature. - Anne Holm

I'll probably never have children because I don't believe in touching people for any reason. - Paula Poundstone

I shall write peace upon your wings,and you shall fly around the worldso that children will no longer haveto die this way. - Teshima Yusuke 手島悠介

Hong Kong became so materialistic that it must be one of the rarest places in the world where family members need to make an appointment to have dinner together, and people speculate upon their own home where their own children are growing up.’Quote from my 7th book about Hong Kong! - TIM I GURUNG

The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders while experience seasons the younger members. - Matt Chandler

All creatures have a sense of territory - except children. - P.K. Shaw

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. - Kahlil Gibran

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it. - Frank Warren

Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth - Imran Khan

Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance - Soke Behzad Ahmadi

The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, "How am I doing?" and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing? - Esmé Raji Codell

Children are great observers. - Lailah Gifty Akita

We cannot leave our children disconnected from opportunities that are designed specially for them. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. - Erma Bombeck

Everyone hungers for a foretaste of heaven. The word "heaven" strikes a note in everyone's heart, for all men are Adam's children, driven out of paradise, but still cherishing a deep desire for the lost paradise. - M. Basilea Schlink

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you. - Jo Deurbrouck

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. - Clarence Darrow

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. - Isodore Duncan

ultimately, the long-term goal is to have a critically informed public vote out of office representatives that are sacrificing children to the corporate bottom line with prepackaged teacher-proof curricula, standardized tests, and accountability schemes. - Pepi Leistyna

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind-- - Emily Dickinson

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

Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it. - Raheel Farooq

"One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman’s selfhood and her dreams." Mother to Sherlock, Mycroft, and Enola Holmes by author Nancy Springer - Vannessa Anderson

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage. - Thomas Szasz

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful — there are far too many children. - Marguerite Yourcenar

It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark. - Shirley Jackson

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love. - Rabindranath Tagore

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. - Emilie Buchwald

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth. - Toni Morrison

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. - Crazy Horse

I am aware, of course, that many men do hate the sight of their wife and children. Doctors even have a name for these people: 'anglers'. - Jeremy Clarkson

After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on. - Sandra Dallas

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

It’s our(As The Stars of the Sky Foundation, Inc.) passion and joy to read to children and improve literacy, as well as teach others about charity and the impact they can have in a child’s life. - Soraya Diase Coffelt

I homeschool my children not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life. - Tamara L. Chilver

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted. - Stefan Molyneux

A street where there are no children playing is a dead street! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate? - Imran Khan

The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable! - Stefan Molyneux

It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. - Thomas Szasz

The most important thing I can do for my children is to protect them and to teach them. After that, it's up to them to be and do their best in life. - Thomas J. Powell

If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by birth only and no power on earth can ever or will ever make that sufficient. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. - Carl Jung

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

Our children will one day lead the world, but it is our responsibility to show them that this world can be a beautiful one. - Karen A. Baquiran

Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O - Keith Olbermann

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. - Eberhard Arnold

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home. - Irish Proverb

80There is no greater influence in the lives of your children than the words you speak over them. The blessing of the father is incredibly potent and powerful. Your words give your children potential. As their father, you are prophesying their future! - Neil Kennedy

Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.) - Neil Gaiman

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters. - Camille Paglia

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. - Martin Luther King Jr.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. - Joyce Maynard

A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one. - M.F. Moonzajer

If we had spent our time on our children education rather than praying; we would have had a three times more educated people than the whole world's population. - M.F. Moonzajer

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water. - Alison Gopnik

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. - John Gray

Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them. Only a self-disciplined person can be obedient; and only such a person can be autonomous. - Thomas Szasz

Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. - Wilkie Collins

Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other. - Elizabeth George

As I cooked in the cauldron of motherhood, the incredible love I felt for my children opened my heart and brought me a much greater understanding of universal love. It made me understand the suffering of the world much more deeply. - Tsultrim Allione

As long as you know most men are like children, you know everything. - Coco Chanel

I didn't find out until I became a father. You don't just LOVE your children. You FALL in love with them. - Frasier Crane

Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration.

In a company of children and grown-ups, the latter are those who should demonstrate good manners and always let the children speak first. - Zoran Stojkovski

To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endure the betrayal of false friends;to appreciate beauty;to find the best in others; to leave the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant - and let the air out of the tires. - Dorothy Parker

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. - Thomas Szasz

If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary. - Matt Chandler

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. - Franklin P. Adams

Children are our greatest natural resource. - Herbert Hoover

If you control the children, you control the future. - Michel Houellebecq

There is no better way to influence children than being their role model. - Eraldo Banovac

If Children are God's Gift then adopted are God's child. - Revathi Sankaran

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? - Jane Nelsen

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a amazing book, I love it - Ransom Riggs

The best parenting strives to educate their children in HOW TO LIVE LIFE -- competitive, compassionate, void of greed, & striving to make a better world. - David R. Wommack

When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?' - Rita Rudner

Parents have become so convinced educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. - Marian Wright Edeleman

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

The greatest compliment in the world is your adult children telling you they had a wonderful childhood. - Ron Baratono

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground. - Zora Neale Hurston

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. - Michael Jackson

Children can be shaped into any way one desires. - Anonymous

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place. - Christopher Moore

There is nothing romantic about childhood. Children can enjoy their childhood only if the adults create the necessary atmosphere. - Sadghuru

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people. - Alice Miller

I like children. If they're properly cooked. - W.C. Fields

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. - Albert Camus

When writing for children, it's important to keep in touch with our own inner child. What frightened them, made them happy, made them sad or angry? - C.J. Heck

Oh no-"she began.It shocked her to be right. Parent's were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arriety knew and enjoy saying it- knowing always they were safe and wrong. - Mary Norton

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow. - Margaret Atwood

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read. - Marilyn Jager Adams

... the enemy will do anything to rob my joy of homeschooling and parenting. He wanted me to live in bondage and feel guilty and like I was never doing enough to have me miss the real joy of just being home with my children. - Tamara L. Chilver

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors. - Brené Brown

Isn't it a good thing we don't know everything? If we did, we wouldn't have a reason to have curiosity, and curiosity is like imagination, taking us back to the time when we were just children in our own fantasylands. - Jule Warner

Pardon me if, reading that, I want to laugh, because you want to relieve me of a fear I've never had. I've never thought that, as they say, you eat little children. - Jeanne D'Albret

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. - Aristotle

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The spirits of children are remote and wise... - Frances Cornford

Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway. - Unknown

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. - Hubert H. Humphrey

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life? - Sandra Chami Kassis

Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult! - Mehmet Murat ildan

One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form. - Anne Fadiman

We all ought to be like little children in the way we treat each other as human beings; quick to forgive, slow to offend, children are friends to each other irrespective of their gender, religion, and color. - Paul Bamikole

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours. - Albert Camus

Children have imagination enough to grasp any idea which you present to them with honesty and without patronage. - Armstrong Sperry

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th. - Roy Blount Jr.

Living with small children is like having a bowling alley set up in your brain. - Martin Mull

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. - W. Somerset Maugham

What I like most about children is that they are great advisors, yet they don't know it. And what I love about them is that they are vision bearers yet may not realize it. - Gugu Mona

Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on both sides, I am sure we all agree that it should be done with sterilized instruments. - G.K. Chesterton

[Feminism is] a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. - Pat Robertson

Don't whine to your spouse about your daily troubles. He's had a harder day providing for you and your children. This is what you're aspiring to? - Lindsey Leavitt-Going Vintage

Animals in children’s literature always have a soul life because children perceive animals as having souls. - Linda Bender

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. - Karl Lagerfeld

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us. - Jean De La Bruyere

English was good enough for Jesus Christ and it's good enough for the children of Texas.

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

Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness. - Shannon L. Alder

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age. - William Feather

Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmot

The greatest challenge of parenting is in the inner work it requires: the strength and confidence in believing that we are not in control of, but the answer for our children. - Kelly Bartlett

Beating children will not make them wise. They will grow wilder and wilder and the cane will feel like paper on their skins. - Michael Bassey Johnson

God allows us to have a personal relationship with himself and he forgives and loves us as children. If God forgives our such great sins against his Son should we not forgive such little sins against ourselves? - Greg Gordon

Who has the time to become politically active, or even politically aware, when one is struggling just to stay alive and feed one’s children? - Lois Tyson

It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. - George Bernard Shaw

They still live. They breathe, they love each other, they find joy in the world around them for no other reason than because they are children. They are resilient. They will always rise above. Always. It is a curious facet of the innocent young. - Amelia Fisher

Cuddle with your children. Don't just read – talk about the pictures too. Give emphasis to your words and make them come alive!Make it fun and enjoyable. - Soraya Diase Coffelt

Not everyone is violent in a violence infected country or society. In those countries and societies many parents unknowingly teach their children hatred and violence. - Debasish Mridha

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

The soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. - Sir Arthur Eddington

All of us were once children, but only some of us remember that - Steven Aitchison

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. - Anonymous

Children judge each other harshly, but don't make nice distinctions among the grown. - Bill Holm

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. - Khaled Hosseini

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

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review. - James Russell Lowell

You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their children suffer, sin, and die, fighting horribly with one another; but in the sense of Conscious Makers of People. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. - Benjamin Spock

What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the children of Communists were and to question the genuineness of the love of mankind that didn't begin at home. - Joy Davidman

Adults need to teach the children they love about sexual abuse so they know what to do if they encounter it. We need to prepare them so they know who to tell, should a violation occur, so they don't have to live with a painful secret, long into adulthood. - Carolyn Byers Ruch

That place is happy over which a holy man builds a house, with fire, cattle, wife, children and good followers - The God

I didn't know when I told God that I wanted to be a mother that I needed to be more specific. Instead of asking to be a mother of my own children, I now realize that I was given the responsibility to be a mother to all of God's children. - Monika Zands

At morn we buried Melanippus; as the sun set the maiden Basilo died by her own hand, as she could not endure to lay her brother on the pyre and live; and the house beheld a two-fold woe, and all Cyrene bowed her head, to see the home of happy children made desolate. - allimachus and Lycophron CXLII

How could children have spotted what everyone else couldn’t? Because we haven’t killed off our imaginations, Aedan mumbled behind a wrapping of arms and knees. - Jonathan Renshaw

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash

Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded. - Jess Lair

Children can see the beatitudes in nature. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are - rassool jibraeel snyman

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers." ~ of Calcutta - Mother Teresa

It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast. - Gavriel Savit

The knowledge of God that a person has, influences not only his own life, but also the lives of his children. - Sunday Adelaja

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run. - Phyllis Diller

I do not have money to invest nor i have studied finance to be an investment banker but i would like to be an investor in the society; by investing my love care and compassion in my children i think there will be a bank of bankable people - meenakshi ahlawat

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever. - Tibor Kalman

Parents don't own their children and no one owns the world. - Marty Rubin

Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake. - Ellen Raskin

The children who need love the most will always ask for it in the most unloving ways - Russel Barkley

Children learn eagerly and well when they have need of the knowledge. - Caroline Pratt

To find eternal peace, love everyone as if they are your beloved children. - Debasish Mridha

Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves. - Francois de Fenelon

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual. - George F. Will

There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. - Alice Thomas Ellis

Children and cats are the best machines of fun! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The most destructive thing we can possibly do in life is to make another person doubt his worth and identity as a child of God. The very most productive thing we can do is to help ourselves and others realize that as children of God, our worth is infinite. - Toni Sorenson

Hmmm.. We are like children in a bus with faulty brakes on a hill, eventually we will meet our collusion point. Well blindly some of us may think of sacking out all the good out of the bus before it meets it's end, but what is really there to sack out. Some places are hard to to get out of. - Allan Amanyire

Praying for your children is the most powerful way you can care for them. - Elizabeth George

As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things. - Fakeer Ishavardas

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw

So many parents think they always need to teach their children about life, when in fact, if they listened once in a while, they would learn from their kids what life is truly about. - Martin R. Lemieux

For the children around the world without a home, say a prayer tonight. - Third Day

What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father. - Barack Obama

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well. - Mignon McLaughlin

All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person. - Asa Don Brown

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books. - Michel de Montaigne

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin." - Lillian Carter

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 Truman

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. - Frank Clark

Women and children are not property and no one owns the world. - Marty Rubin

"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. - Mark Twain

Fornication and adultery unleash destructive consequences into a person's life:• Poverty;• Lack of perception;• Loss of respect and mutual acceptance;• Children with shattered futures;• Dullness of the senses and of the intellect;• Deterioration of health. - Sunday Adelaja

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen

If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good. - Beatrix Potter

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. It matters what you think of yourself and what your children think. So if anyone is going to ask my advice, I'd say, do what is right for you and don't give a shit what anyone else thinks - Gwyneth Paltrow

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

As a people we practiced excess. Excess in everything - pleasure, gaud display, endless toil, and death. Vagrant children slept in the alleys. Ragpicking was a profession. A conspicuously self-satisfied class of new wealth and weak intellect was all aglitter in a setting of mass misery. - E.L. Doctrow

We need to protect and care for our children because when society fails to protect its children, there will be no one else to learn from. - Gugu Mona

To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation. - Brigham Young

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. - Rudyard Kipling

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. - Samuel Butler

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked. - George Gilder

In this sublime hour, therefore, He calls all His children to the pulpit of the Cross, and every word He says to them is set down for the purpose of an eternal publication and an undying consolation. - Fulton J. Sheen

It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time to let children be children again. - L.R. Knost

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected. - John Locke

Some people discard their childhood like an old hat. They forget about it like a phone number that's no longer valid. They used to be kids, then they became adults - but what are they now?Only those who grow up but continue to be children are humans. - Erick Kästner

Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills - Fela Durotoye

We cannot let the future of our children be decided by their zip codes and family incomes. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men. - Mario Puzo

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. - Haim Ginott

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it - Alexandre Dumas

There is no better time than now to rededicate yourself to the principles taught by Jesus, and to teach your children about Him too! - Soraya Diase Coffelt

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. - Harold S. Hulbert

The God who delivered Hezekiah and the children of Israel is the same God who is eager to act on my behalf. - Lori Hatcher

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends. - Ana Monnar

All the Creator's children are blessed with gifts. We are all given special skills to assist each other her, including animals, plants and insects. - Eileen Anglin

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. - Robert Byrne

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children. - Clarence Darrow

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. - Margaret Mead

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things. - Maurice Sendak

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children. - Martin Luther

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. - Margaret Mead

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. - Betty Friedan

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children. - Perry Nodelman

Reading helps children achieve their divine destinies - Soraya Diase Coffelt

Children are prophets of nature. - Raheel Farooq

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. - Hebrew Proverb

Her mindset will raise your children not her body or good looks - claris mary

Myriam and I are both hard workers, and together we make a strong team. We found ways to make a living, educate our children, and to take care of my parents until their last days, and we managed to have fun doing it. ...The friendships we made along the way were the biggest treasure of all. - Marc Ashton

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. - Abigail Van Buren

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves. - Ken Robinson

My age and the ages of my children are imaginary numbers. - Carol L. Covin

If parents were as concerened about raising their children as they are about the outcome of their sitcom or sports game, this nation would thrive. - Benjamin Lotter

...take down your baby bump photos from Facebook, take down pictures of your kids too. It is your job to protect your children and not parade them around like little circus freaks or glorified mini-you’s. - Brandon Kelly

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

Everything I had to give went to my children, and though I loved them and my husband utterly, the drudgery of the day-to-day made it seem as if not love but coffee, my Toyota and sheer logistics were what propelled me through life. - Marcia DeSanctis

Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been. - David Halberstam

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. - P.J. O'Rourke

Young children and old ladies have inspired me more than poets and philosophers. - Marty Rubin

It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always realize under the pressure their parents put on them to be happy. - Adam Phillips

Children always give this simple message: Be natural, be sincere, be yourself! - Mehmet Murat ildan

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. - H. L. Mencken

And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins. - Book of Mormon

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world as you know it is in danger of collapsing - R. N. Prasher

Showing charity towards others is the biggest lesson we canteach our children to guide them in their future on this planet. - Simin Hashemizadeh

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. - Charles Alexander Eastman

Sometimes in our attempt to give children what we did not have, we forget to give our children what we did have. - Connie Podesta

A good mother does not live only for her children. She always has some bond with other mothers, no matter what class, nationality or race they may be. All mothers have the same joys, the same sorrows, the same anxieties. All mothers think first of their child and of children. - Werenfried Von Straaten

...Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive. - Asa Don Brown

...Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them - Karen White

The minds of small children are more interested in clockwork trains, jumping in puddles and other important childhood endeavours. - Maxwell Grantly

I am a conscious parent. That means I realize that I am not here to teach my children, but rather we are meant to teach each other. I have found that the truth is that I have far more to learn from them than they could ever learn from me. - Monika Zands

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. - Katharine Whitehorn

They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children. - Ann Richards

For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy. - Upasana Saraf

The general public of the wireless western nations are very tolerant to the radiation poisoning of the next generation of children by their corporate controlled governments. - Steven Magee

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less. - Gordon B. Hinckley

Never put a single thought of weakness in the flourishing minds of the children. Fill them up with vigour and compassion, for their character will define the future of the entire human species. - Abhijit Naskar

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth. - Dr. Seuss

People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don`t want to have children. - Janeane Garofalo

I urge you to be teachers so that you can join with children as the co-collaborators in a plot to build a little place of ecstasy and poetry and gentle joy - Jonathan Kozol

In a reality known as the garden of beautiful eden, Adam is dreaming about his sinful children on earth.He is struggling to wake up from a terrible nightmare. - Toba Beta

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world. - Karl Kraus

No one in this world can starve n die.. One who does, had died much before then... Never give money to beggars and specially children on street... By giving them money, Either u would be killing them or helping them in dieing (indirectly)... - honeya

If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride. - John R. Dallas Jr.

Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise. - Abhijit Naskar

I believe that it should be the blessing of every child to be born into a home where that child is welcomed, nurtured, loved, and blessed with parents, a father and a mother, who live with loyalty to one another and to their children. - Gordon B. Hinckley

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. - Fran Lebowitz

A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the United States of America. - Otto von Bismarck

If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior! - Mehmet Murat ildan

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of the Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. - Kahlil Gibran

The philosophy of project-based homeschooling — this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers — is dependent upon the interest and the enthusiastic participation and leadership of the learners themselves, the children. - Lori McWilliam Pickert

When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others. - Ellen J. Barrier

Parenting is a partnership. Loving each other has a big impact on your children. - Elizabeth George

The strongest shoulders are not the well-built shoulders of a weight lifter who carries iron dumbbells, but they are of a mother’s weak shoulders which carry three children! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization. - George Macaulay Trevelyan

I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer. - Neil Gaiman

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. - P.J. O'Rourke

Laywers, I suppose, were children once. - Jane Gardam

May God grant children who will fear and revered Him. - Lailah Gifty Akita

If I had wanted children of my own, I would have gotten married. If I had wanted to get married, I would have fallen in love. If I had wanted to fall in love, I would have met the right girl. If I had wanted to meet the right girl, I would have drank a whole lot less. - Carroll Bryant

For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. - Bible

The festive season isn’t just a time to teach children about Jesus and giving, it’s also a time to teach your children about those less fortunate. This year, encourage your children to pick a present and give it to a child who has none, or take them to a charity drive. - Soraya Diase Coffelt

A revolution does not have to eat its children. In fact, it is those who are in power who could very well initiate revolutions. Let us not be old-fashioned and think only of armed uprisings of minorities as revolutions. Any movement that seeks to overhaul established attitudes is a revolution. - F. Sionil José

The laughter of children isn't mean or cutting, but pure and simple fun. - Marty Rubin

Devoid of any real liberty or justice, America and her children had fallen prey to what amounted to little more than a thinly veiled dictatorship. She now represented not the proud citadel of freedom, but the failed experiment of democracy. - Eric J. Martindale

World is brighter with the happiness of children. - Mehmet Murat ildan

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their children were last night.

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.

The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children. - Stefan Molyneux

Every night I tell my children all of the things that I love about them. I tell them how proud I am of their accomplishments and how much better our lives have been since they were born. I hope they will always realize how much they are loved and valued. I feel so blessed that they are in my life. - Tom Giaquinto

I wish in the city of your heartyou would let me be the streetwhere you walk when you are mostyourself. I imagine the houses:It has been raining, but the rainis done and the children kept homehave begun opening their doors. - Robley Wilson

Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing? - Sunday Adelaja

NEVER EVER STAY IN AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR CHILDREN. That is the worst thing one can ever do. It is better for a child to live with one Good Parent than two frustrated,screwed up ones. - Rachitha Cabral

Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians. - Zeena Schreck

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. - Charles Lamb

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing. - Gloria Steinem

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

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would! - Ralph Waldo Emerson

He was thirteen that year, the age when children splinter off and abandon the old loves. - Mark Costello

Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own church. This is downright sectarianism, not Catholicism. How can I act consistently, unless I receive and love all the children of God, whom I esteem to be such, of whatever denomination they may be? - George Whitefield

It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. - Pat Robertson

... parents naturally want their children to excel in every area of academics and extra-curricular activities, but the reality is- God made each child differently for His purpose. He never intended for our children to excel in everything. - Tamara L. Chilver

Asking children to grow virtues hydroponically, looking only within themselves for guidance, is like asking each one to invent a personal language―a pointless and isolating task if there is no community with whom to speak. - Jonathan Haidt

I am very pleased you like my stories. They are studies in prose, put for Romance's sake into fanciful form: meant partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy, and who find simplicity in a subtle strangeness. - Oscar Wilde

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. - Peggy O'Mara

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up. - Ray Romano

Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children. - Asa Don Brown

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein

Pressure? This is just a football match. When you do not know how to feed your children, that is pressure.

Everything in here is eatable. I'm eatable, but that my children is called cannibalism, and is frowned upon in most societies.

I think the greatest sound in the world is hearing one of your children singing when they think no one is listening. - Ron Baratono

God determines the goals of the prosperity before giving prosperity to His children. - Sunday Adelaja

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what’s easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades. - Alfie Kohn

If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine. - Michael Jay Tucker

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) - Kim Cormack

Cleaning with children in the house really is like brushing your teeth while eating Oreos. - Joleigh Little

What makes me feel rich is spending time with my children, knowing we are making beautiful memories together. - Brigitte Nicole

Children, like God, see only our actions. - Marty Rubin

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children. - Marianne Williamson

That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. - Garrison Keillor

Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhoods. - Pam Leo

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. - Angela Schwindt

Children have such an innocent view of their world and surroundings; every thought is a garden full of wonder. - C.J. Heck

What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed - Darnell Lamont Walker

Serve your parents if you expect your children to serve you when you are old - Radhe Maa

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. - O. A. Battista

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits. - Oliver DeMille

We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger? - Śāntideva

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire-- - Nelly Sachs

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. - Arthur Rimbaud

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. - Dorothy Parker

Being a single mother should not stop you from helping your children to reach their full potential. - Gugu Mona

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense. - John Hersey

If we teach our children how to love, they will fill the world with love. - Debasish Mridha

Children have but little charity for each other's defects. - Mark Twain

Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel. - Fernando Pessoa

Designing for children carries a social responsibility beyond bright colors and scaled-down furnishings that only perceptive and informed grown-ups can understand. - Sharon Exley

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history. - H.G. Wells

Our children need to assimilate the wonder that is India when they are young, so that they imbibe the principles of our founding fathers and continue to build this great nation. - Shallu Jindal

We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will remember with us. In that day, we will all be free - Rachel Higginson

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. - H. L. Mencken

Fostering a spirit of cooperation with your ex means laying down your weapons in the war of divorce in order to protect your children.

Teach your children to think "we" not "them" and "us. - Marty Rubin

John and I noticed that whenever we talked about our children Wystan reached for his cats. - Thekla Clark

Take all men as your brothers; all women as your sisters; and all children as your sons and daughters. - Matshona Dhliwayo

It is preposterous to think that we are peaceful when every day we spend more money to built killing machine than to educate our children. - Debasish Mridha

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one. - Enid Blyton

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions. - Karl Marx

How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected. - Howard Markel

Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever. - Abhijit Naskar

I don't buy that overused line about a woman's job making her a better mother. The children need more time. Everything in our home needs more time. - Holly Peterson

It's quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not. - Wayne Gerard Trotman

It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected. - Shannon L. Alder

The best year so far as for me when I am a children it's when I finish school and start doing something else which is more useful... Games are useful, aren't they?Facts also, aren't they?... Aren't they? - Deyth Banger

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them. - Milan Kundera

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once. - H. L. Mencken

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters. - Anne Frank

Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them - Ginnetta Correli

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Humankind must no longer permit the lie to be taught to its children. - Compton Gage

Love and advise your children unconditionally. - Eraldo Banovac

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. - Anna Quindlen

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. - Evelyn Waugh

Dan P. McAdams argues that children develop a narrative tone which influences their stories for the rest of their lives. Children gradually adopt an enduring assumption that everything will turn out well, or badly, depending on their childhood. - David Brooks

I'm most disturbed by the theory of rubber resilience in children; as if its much easier to bounce back with youth. I see them more like Steel. When heated, they can be bent either which way. But if it's not corrected by the time things cool down, they can be forever changed. - Zack W. Van

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things. - Plato

Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow. - Wess Stafford

The best way to make children good is to make them happy. - Oscar Wilde

A second wifeis hateful to the children of the first;a viper is not more hateful. - Euripides

The Bible may be an arresting andpoetic work of fiction, but it is not the sort of book you should giveyour children to form their morals. - Richard Dawkins

In fiction's grip, we may mortage our homes, sell our children, to have whatever it is we crave.

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet. - George W. Bush

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources? - John Taylor Gatto

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one. - Tom Waits

Tell your children the most important things To Be when they grow up, is to be kind and compassionate, to be loving and grateful, and to be happy and at peace with who they are, no matter of what they chose to do when they grow up. - Martin Suarez

What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth. For the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish, and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs to him only? - Massasoit

All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters. - Bahá'u'lláh

All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey. - Marty Rubin

If only one generation takes action in raising their children as humans, rather than raising boys and girls, the future human civilization shall get rid of the sinister phenomenon of misogyny sooner than you can imagine. - Abhijit Naskar

If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed! - Wess Stafford

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker. - Stanley Kubrick

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state. - Harry Truman

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. - Dick Cavett

The greatest things in the world are those that neither men nor children can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there.

I cannot wait to stare into the face of my children and be in love. - Rachel Walden

I'm still struggling with the fact that due to my own (selfish) desire to be a writer, my children probably won't have the same opportunities I had growning up. For most students, however, I genuinely think it's about the money. It's a factor, sure. But it just feels like a factor. - Marina Keegan

Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right. - Stefan Emunds

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. - Aristotle

A church begins to die when it says, ‘They were just children. - Wess Stafford

True happiness is enjoying the time as much as possible with the children of age up to 6 by being a kid amidst them. - Anuj Somany

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. - P. J. O'Rourke

A successful father is not more successful than his children. - Raheel Farooq

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children. - Marianne Williamson

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves - Margaret Mead

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children. - Ivan Turgenev

Plant in the land of children whatever you wish to see in the life of our times - Lucy Wheelock

One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur. - Steve Maraboli

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome. - Joan Didion

Human beings are born for peace; they like to grow up in peace. They like to raise their children in peace, and they like to say goodbye to this beautiful life in peace. Then why are we always preparing for war? - Debasish Mridha

If you want to find missing children put their photo's on Soda Cans, beer cans and cigarette packs and you'll increase the odds by millions some people are lactose in tolerate. - Stanley Victor Paskavich

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. - Marian Wright Edelman

Relearning from children their need to question and discover can ignite one's creativity and reveal more possibilities. - Nabil N. Jamal

The thing about the black market is, it’s racist. White children make useful slaves, too. - M.C. Humphreys

We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. - George Bernard Shaw

Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. - Walt Disney

I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own specific purposes, and make the dreams of their youth become realities as they age. - Ashley Ormon

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers. - Amit Kalantri

Children remind us that we're all children. - Marty Rubin

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. - Brian W. Aldiss

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world? - Christopher Hitchens

The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted. - George Bernard Shaw

Making children happy is the best art. - Marty Rubin

Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God’s children will one day fall. - Jim George

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. - Roger Lewin

We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars) - Kristina Riggle

Childhood is the time and children's books are the place for powerful emotions, powerful language, powerful art... There is no room for cutesy books, dull books, or books that talk down. Children are not inferior. They may be small in stature but not in what they feel, think, listen, and see. - Betsy Hearne

In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be asked whether we expect our children to live better than we do. - Frank Levy

...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes, and to be unable to live or die in peace. - Salman Rushdie

If you're not parenting on purpose, don't be surprised when you get chaos from the children. - Benjamin Lotter

The literature of America should reflect the children of America. - Lucille Clifton

Raising your children to love and serve Jesus is fulfilling one of God’s highest callings upon your life. - Elizabeth George

Children are like clay in the hands of teachers. Like a sculptor we can chisel and carve their personalities with our behavior. - Balroop Singh

Women and children make you weak; get rid of them when you are in war. - M.F. Moonzajer

In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul. - Lisa T. Shepherd

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. - Phyllis Diller

Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. - Peter Ustinov

If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home. - Shannon L. Alder

A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young. - Soraya Diase Coffelt

We are the children of a womb.Yet we differentiate each other,On color, creed and the sizes of our tombs!! - Shillpi S Banerrji

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children - Lewis B. Frumkes

We are all born with wonderful gifts. We use these gifts to express ourselves, to amuse, to strengthen, and to communicate. We begin as children to explore and develop our talents, often unaware that we are unique, that not everyone can do what we're doing! - Lynn Johnston

My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them. - Munia Khan

I remember reading article about the woman in that Oakland neighborhood who lost all her children to violence. I wondered why'd she keep living there after the first one was killed. Didn't she care about the others?Today, I zoomed out and wondered why I'm still in America. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Raising children is like baking cookies at high altitudes. The recipe doesn’t work. You must open the oven door and keep checking on the cookies. - Dr Margaret Aranda

I am gazing-- desires unaware of destiny frisk about my mindscape like children. - Suman Pokhrel

The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair. - Onyi Anyado

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. - C.S. Lewis

Children teach us how to chase without overrunning. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Familiarity breeds contempt and children. - Mark Twain

Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s. - Oliver James

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?...I mean, men give her [a queen] power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it. - Ursula K. Le Guin

In God's eyes all children are beautiful but here on earth we have higher standards. - Stephen Colbert

The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the generations, and there will be a Nuremberg at some point in the future - Stefan Molyneux

We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world. - Wess Stafford

If we are teaching children how to lie,to steal, and to be aggressive, why do schools punish those who lie and steal? and why does the society punish the offender criminal? - Ali Altantawi

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers. - Margaret Mead

Men, in general, are but great children.

It’s exciting to watch young children read poetry for the first time. You can sense the wheels turning and you just know their brain is doing this wonderful thing called learning. It’s magical! - Elaine Grey

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

With the word "Repent" He was beckoning to us as the Savior, offering us His love and salvation. But behind this word we can also see the grief of God that His children have turned away from Him. - M. Basilea Schlink

Children are bad enough--children are rude, selfish, greedy, and unthinking individuals who are unable to distinguish between their own selfish wants and needs and the wants and needs of others. And adults are children with money, alcohol, and power. - Ian Sansom

Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time - Ali ibn-e-Abu Talib

You and I must work together to develop Nigeria to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve all the basic essentials. - Saminu Kanti

Every year I collect a select amount of material possessions (baseball cards, coins, famous paraphernalia) to pass on to my children. In two or more generations they should have a small fortune of 'ancient' famous items. - Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. - George MacDonald

Who cries for the children, I do! - Ronnie James Dio

Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones:The history of how you felt. - Simon Van Booy

Our children were allowed to help when they were little, urged to help when they grew a little older, and sometimes ordered to help when they were teenagers. - Boyd K. Packer

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. - Groucho Marx

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination. - John Irving

All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children. - Stefan Molyneux

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes. - Toni Morrison

We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children. - Stefan Molyneux

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. - Eric Hoffer

Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are. - Darnell Lamont Walker

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards. - Walt Whitman

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. - James Thurber

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. - Ogden Nash

No matter where you are involved with, your increase must have a purpose.multiplication of his children, He goes ahead to expatiate on his blessings to us - Sunday Adelaja

We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games. - Tom Bissell

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

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. - Erma Bombeck

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There’s more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line And the less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine. - Emily Saliers