Children Quotes

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Jeremy Taylor

Home, Wife, Loves

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.
Jesus Christ

God, Greater, Conquered

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Job, Young, Parent

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert

Yourself, Live, Purpose

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
Augustus Y. Napier

Women, Men, Society

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana

Experience, Parents, Memory

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson

Presence, Presents

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush

Tell, Married, Throw

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
Margaret Sanger

Ignorance, Deep, Become

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.
Jock Sturges

Real, Lose, Whatever

Children need models rather than critics.
Joseph Joubert

Rather, Critics, Models

God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.
Charles Stanley

God, Character, Blessings

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.
Shelley Morrison

Business, Pet, Teach

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
Jackie Kennedy

Work, Women, Sad

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
Yoko Ono

Beautiful, Next, Ourselves

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Sophocles

Laughter, Him, Himself

People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.
Ellen DeGeneres

Love, Thought, After

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
Albert Ellis

Time, Kids, Liked

Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices.
Temple Grandin

Person, Cannot, Problem

We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.
Jim Valvano

Life, Love, Money

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
Steve Martin

Find, Accept, Street

Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whole world.
Chris Rock

Fun, Care, Whole

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
Russell Baker

Age, Parents, Before

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Friendship, Great

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I've done my job.
Roseanne Barr

Home, Job, Done

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
Dave Barry

Good, Parents, Cannot

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
Rita Rudner

Good, Friends, She

Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
Mason Cooley

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Good, House, Drinks

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
Guru Nanak

Life, Men, Daily

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