Children Quotes

18494 Children quotes by 7563 unique authors

I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science… — Charles Kingsley
I choose faithfulness...Today I will keep my promises. My debtors will not regret their trust. My associates will not question my word. My wife will… — Max Lucado
The CRAFT approach, developed by Bob Meyers at U of New Mexico, is one set of important tools that DO work, and it feels great… — Jeff Foote
The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is. — Jim Cornette
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our… — Nelson Mandela
The Bushwhackers are living proof that the Three Stooges had children — Gorilla Monsoon
.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals. — G. Stanley Hall
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in… — Bertrand Russell
Being an only child is a disease in itself. — G. Stanley Hall
Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and… — G. Stanley Hall
Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first… — James Dyson
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,… — William James
I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon. — Wernher von Braun
It is clear that we cannot go up another two orders of magnitude as we have climbed the last five. If we did, we should… — Derek J. de Solla Price
It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws… — Lewis Terman
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of… — Carl Jung
No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child. — H. Bentley Glass
Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery. — G. Stanley Hall
Old age is but a second childhood. — Aristophanes
Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one… — James P. Hogan
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to… — Noam Chomsky
There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden... The pupil is… — G. Stanley Hall
There is no part of the country where in the summer you cannot get a sufficient supply of the best specimens. Teach your children to… — Louis Agassiz
This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in… — Leonardo da Vinci
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are… — Mary Midgley

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