Children Quotes

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato

Parents, Spirit, Riches

Adults are obsolete children.
Dr. Seuss

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
Walt Disney

Greatest, Minds, National

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?
Charlie Sheen

Time, Stupidity, Down

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
David Brenner

Person, Won, Eat

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Give, Someday

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
Chanakya

Time, Best, Friend

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll

Lives, Memory, Banks

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Care, Remember, Flower

The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
Frank Serpico

End, Fight, Justice

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
Evan Bayh

Men, Single, Nation

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
Michael Jackson

Love, Money, Power

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw

Best, Honesty, Before

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw

Fitness, Important, Interest

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
Sam Levenson

Insanity, Hereditary

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.
Sun Tzu

Death, Stand, Soldiers

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw

Yourself, Hold, Lesson

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
Abdul Kalam

Today, Tomorrow, Sacrifice

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Kiss, Goodnight, Asleep

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Pope John Paul II

Family, Parents, Special

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

Wonderful, Youth, Crime

Children make your life important.
Erma Bombeck

Life, Important

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.
Charlotte Davis Kasl

Happy, Heart, Together

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill Cosby

Business, Wisdom, Mistakes

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato

Education, Nature, End

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.
Steve Jobs

Time, Technology, Sorry

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck

After, Sick, Mothers

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
Ednita Nazario

Love, Family, Society

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm

Education, Age, Society

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James A. Baldwin

Good, Listening, Failed

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