Children Quotes

"Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned"

Judith Viorst, Author

"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"Age merely shows what children we remain"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Women are nothing but machines for producing children"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

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

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"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"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same"

Ronald Reagan, President

"All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children"

William Penn, Leader

"America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children"

George W. Bush, President

"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

"I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old"

Robert Indiana, Artist

"We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate"

Marian Burros

"For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature"

Giorgio Vasari, Artist

"Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors"

Thaddeus Stevens, Politician

"Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time"

Grace Abbott, Activist

"But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc"

Bruno Bauer, Theologian

"No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously"

William Bennett, Politician

"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, Dramatist

"I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home"

Bill Cosby, Comedian

"When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?"

Ralph Marston, Writer

"Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul"

Roger McGough, Poet

"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

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