Children Quotes

Books, the children of the brain. (Jonathan Swift)
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. View quote
Aristotle
The soul is healed by being with children. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. View quote
Victor Hugo
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. View quote
Napoleon Hill
We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light? View quote
Plato
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first A viper is not more hateful. View quote
Euripides
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. View quote
Aristotle
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
If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. (Confucius)
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth. View quote
Epictetus
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
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
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. (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. View quote
H. L. Mencken
📖 Children Proverbs