Children Quotes

Books, the children of the brain. (Jonathan Swift)
We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light? View quote
Plato
The soul is healed by being with children. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children. View quote
Denis Diderot
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. View quote
Sophocles
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first A viper is not more hateful. View quote
Euripides
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
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. View quote
Thomas Szasz
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories. View quote
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. (Victor Hugo)
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. View quote
Harry S. Truman
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. View quote
Henry Fielding
The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. View quote
Clarence Darrow
In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV. View quote
Erma Bombeck
My music is best understood by children and animals. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce. View quote
Norman Mailer
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations. View quote
David Friedman
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)
Children need models more than they need critics. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. View quote
Peter Ustinov
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. View quote
Robert Orben
Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected. View quote
Robert Orben