Children Quotes - page 2

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. (Victor Hugo)
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. View quote
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
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun - together. (Walt Disney)
We've had bad luck with children they've all grown up. View quote
Christopher Morley
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. View quote
Golda Meir
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. View quote
Charles de Lint
Never have children, only grandchildren. View quote
Gore Vidal
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. View quote
Robert Benchley
The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. View quote
Jim Henson
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. View quote
William Penn
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. (Muriel Spark)
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. View quote
Jimmy Carter
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
The best way to make children good is to make them happy. View quote
Oscar Wilde
📖 Children Proverbs