Children Quotes

18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors

It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I… — Washington Irving
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them… — Marguerite Duras
It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of… — Erma Bombeck
The child is the father of man. — William Wordsworth
When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating… — Lily Yeh
As the family goes, so go the children. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important;… — Faith Hill
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again:… — James Agee
Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. — Eberhard Arnold
Teach a child how to think, not what to think. — Sidney Sugarman
I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn… — Sarada Devi
Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking my grandchildren and… — J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr.
Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom. — Arnaud Desjardins
I regret that children died, but I felt like God. It was the power of God over a human being. ... I got very little… — Peter Woodcock
A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's. — Bernard Moitessier
In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children… — Marshall Fritz
The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This prescription, unfortunately, has… — John Rosemond
The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been… — Damon Hill
Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of the moral… — Unknown Author
We have the ability to provide clean water for every man, woman and child on the Earth. What has been lacking is the collective will… — Jean-Michel Cousteau
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on… — Norman Podhoretz
Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God, where art thou?' Yes! When… — Robert D. Hales
It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the… — Harrison Schmitt
The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she… — David Finkelstein
Children are gleeful barbarians. — Joe Morgenstern

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