Children Quotes

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

"Women are nothing but machines for producing children."

"A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w"

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

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."

"The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop"

"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children"

"Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children."

"The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted."

"We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy"

"Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children."

"Children should neither be seen or heard from -- ever again."

"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."

"A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory -- an empty bottle of gin."

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold"

"The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another."

"And to those people with no children but who think they'd like to have them some day to fulfill their lives. Remember: With fulfillment comes responsibility."

"She's my sister friend and I pray for her and her children. Everybody, please give a good thought, a positive thought for Coretta."

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

"When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world."