Children Quotes

18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors

Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking,… — Andrew Carnegie
With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed… — Bob Brown
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country. — Azim Premji
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! — Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years,… — George Sand
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity. — Jean Paul
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe… — Lafcadio Hearn
A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before… — Joan Rivers
I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying… — Berkeley Breathed
The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature… — Robert Bly
We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose? — Carl Sagan
We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine. — Pierce Brosnan
I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls 'tomorrow's child,' asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and… — Sylvia Earle
Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place… — Julie Andrews
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often. — Barack Obama
At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities… — Barack Obama
Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children come… — Barack Obama
...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them,… — Barack Obama
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people far from my… — Ed Bradley
As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my life to them.… — Maurice Sendak
Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just… — Brian Andreas
When you give a little of yourself to a child, you give a little of yourself to their future ! — Kevin Heath

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