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Children Quotes by John Ruskin
- Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily…
- See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.
- Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their…
- It is among children, and as children only, that you will find your healing and true wisdom for your teaching
- In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are…
- The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as…
- The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
- If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would…
- Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
- To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
- The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
- The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains…
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