Children Quotes - page 3

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. View quote
Ogden Nash
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. View quote
Mark Twain
I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. View quote
Peter De Vries
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. View quote
Beverly Cleary
My wife and I have five children the reason we have five children is because we do not want six. View quote
Bill Cosby
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. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. View quote
Groucho Marx
The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards, all of them look like droopy-eyed armless children. (Charlie Sheen)
I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know? View quote
Charlie Sheen
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. View quote
John Updike
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. View quote
John Adams
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. View quote
James Thurber
The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity. View quote
Maria Montessori
If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. View quote
Maria Montessori
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist. View quote
Maria Montessori
Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. View quote
Sylvia Plath
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. (Robert N. Bellah)
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
The Revolution is like Saturn - it eats its own children. View quote
Georg Büchner
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. View quote
Thornton Wilder