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Children Quotes by George Santayana
- Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.
- With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
- It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.
- A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
- Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
- Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind…
- Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon