CHILDREN QUOTES

• We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
  ~ Charles Lamb ~
• God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children
  ~ Mary Howitt ~
• You are a good father only if your children are proud of you.
  ~ Bernard Gabriel Okurut ~
• Beating your wife before your children makes you a monster, and as time goes on their fear and respect for you will turn to hatred.
  ~ Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke ~
• What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before their eyes
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
  ~ Wystan Hugh Auden ~
• The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.
  ~ Dorothy Parker ~
• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant --- and let the air out of their tires.
  ~ Dorothy Parker ~
• 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 ~
• Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
  ~ Ogden Nash ~
• Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.
  ~ Ogden Nash ~
• 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 ~
• Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
  ~ William Makepeace Thackeray ~
• Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
  ~ John Dryden ~
• Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• Lawers, I suppose, were children once.
  ~ Charles Lamb ~
• If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
  ~ Homer ~
• For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral?
  ~ Lewis Carroll ~
• Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
  ~ William Cullen Bryant ~
• Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.
  ~ Edgar Allan Poe ~
• Children are all foreigners.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
  ~ John Wilmot ~
• Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
  ~ John Wilmot ~
• Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.
  ~ John Wilmot ~
• Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
  ~ W. H. Auden ~
• A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
  ~ Ogden Nash ~
• Many parents are sacrificing their lives for their children's future but their children don't know about that. They are wasting their time with their girlfriends.
  ~ Mohammed Arshad Amin ~
• One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.
  ~ Hugh Laurie ~
• I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
  ~ Sandra Lee ~
• I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
  ~ Sandra Lee ~
• I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength.
  ~ Sandra Lee ~
• I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.
  ~ Edward Norton ~
• I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.
  ~ Joan Collins ~
• I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love. Look into your hearts. This is our country. This is our future. These are our children and grandchildren. You can trust Mitt.
  ~ Ann Romney ~
• I said tonight I wanted to talk to you about love. Look into your hearts. This is our country. This is our future. These are our children and grandchildren. You can trust Mitt.
  ~ Ann Romney ~
• Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what it's all about.
  ~ Julie Andrews ~
• I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.
  ~ Muhammad Yunus ~
• In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• I came back to work when my children were two months old. At that early age, they seem to have little awareness of anybody but their Raggedy Ann dolls, so it wasn't a matter of them missing me. I was missing them.
  ~ Jane Pauley ~
• The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
  ~ Jessica Lange ~
• I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
  ~ Jessica Lange ~
• A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
  ~ Temple Grandin ~
• Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
  ~ Rita Dove ~
• I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.
  ~ Nicki Minaj ~
• I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
  ~ Emily Mortimer ~
• My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
  ~ Emily Mortimer ~
• I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
  ~ Emily Mortimer ~
• My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
  ~ Emily Mortimer ~
• My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
  ~ Reba Mcentire ~
• My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
  ~ Reba Mcentire ~
• The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.
  ~ Jamie Oliver ~
• It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.
  ~ Martha Plimpton ~
• It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and families are healthier, and society at large benefits.
  ~ Martha Plimpton ~
• 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.
  ~ Thomas Szasz ~
• 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.
  ~ Thomas Szasz ~
• 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 ~
• High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
  ~ James Wolcott ~
• High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
  ~ James Wolcott ~
• Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
  ~ Garrison Keillor ~
• Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
  ~ Garrison Keillor ~
• Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
  ~ Garrison Keillor ~
• I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.
  ~ Garrison Keillor ~
• I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
  ~ Cate Blanchett ~
• I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
  ~ Cate Blanchett ~
• In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
  ~ Jessica Savitch ~
• Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
  ~ Princess Diana ~
• PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity. I think it's great that a kid wants to learn more and wants to be at the peak of learning, especially at that young.
  ~ Joe Nichols ~
• That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity. I think it's great that a kid wants to learn more and wants to be at the peak of learning, especially at that young.
  ~ Joe Nichols ~
• There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.
  ~ Andrew Shue ~
• There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.
  ~ Andrew Shue ~
• Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
  ~ Joe Baca ~
• It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
  ~ Frederick Douglass ~
• When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
  ~ Andrea Jung ~