Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
P. J. O'Rourke

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
John Locke

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy

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

Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it - but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jackie Kennedy

You see much more of your children once they leave home.
Lucille Ball

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
Lucille Ball

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
Lord Byron

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Margaret Mead

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Margaret Mead

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Margaret Mead

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Margaret Mead

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Age merely shows what children we remain.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe