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Quotes about Children


Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

English Proverb

War, children, is just a shot away, it's just a shot away.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

David Friedman

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

Theodore Roosevelt

All television is children's television.

Fred Allen

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach: Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

Francis Bible

Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

Bible

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Harriet Beecher Aristotle

Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. 'Get out' and 'I never want to see you again' might sound like a challenge. If you want to get rid of a man, I suggest saying, 'I love you.... I want to marry you.... I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks.

John Wayne

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

Haida Indian saying

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

Sara Teasdale

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1.

Geroge Bernard Shaw

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

Fran Lebowitz

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. . -Thomas Bray.

Thomas Bray

Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. -Anonymous.

Mad Anonymous

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 S Truman.

Harry S Truman

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

Doug Larson

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. -John Plomp.

John Plomp

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. -Hodding Carter.

Hodding Carter

An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with-for you are a caretaker for those moments in time. -Doc Childre.

Doc Childre

As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community. . -Dawna Markova.

Dawna Markova

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. -Roy L. Smith.

Roy L. Smith

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