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Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
- Mead, Margaret

Never have children, only grand children.
- Vidal, Gore

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
- Kraus, Karl

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
- Vries, Peter De

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
- Lebowitz, Fran

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
- Hubbard, Elbert

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
- Santayana, George

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
- Irons, Jeremy

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
- Irons, Jeremy

A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.
- Campbell, Beatrix

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
- Shakespeare, William

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.
- Wilmot, John

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
- Melville, Herman

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
- Montessori, Maria

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 children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
- Ruskin, John

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.
- Walker, Alice

Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.
- Unknown, Source

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
- Bacon, Francis

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
- Szasz, Thomas

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
- Wilder, Thornton

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
- Elk, Black

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.
- Johnson, Samuel

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
- Greer, Germaine

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
- Tracy, Brian

Education ought everywhere to be religious education. Parents are bound to employ no instructors who will instruct their children religiously. To commit children to the care of irreligious persons is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves.
- Dwight, Timothy

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you dont help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
- Camus, Albert

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
- Larkin, Philip

With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.
- Unknown, Source

All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.
- Kline, Peter

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We are the children of our own deeds.
- Hugo, Victor

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
- Darrow, Clarence

Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
- Twain, Mark

Noble fathers have noble children.
- Euripides

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
- Renkel, Ruth E.

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.
- Levenson, Samuel

Lawyers I suppose were children once.
- Lamb, Charles

A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children.
- Unknown, Source

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
- Feather, William

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.
- Proverb

Finance, like time, devours its own children.
- Balzac, Honore De

A mother's heart is always with her children.
- Proverb

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
- Cervantes, Miguel De

Let your children go if you want to keep them.
- Forbes, Malcolm S.

The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
- Paul, Jean

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
- Proverb, Chinese

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
- Spark, Muriel

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
- Steinem, Gloria

Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
- Sullivan, Anne

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
- Ustinov, Peter

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.
- Yankwich, Leon R.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.
- Bible

All revolutions devour their own children.
- Rohm, Ernst

Sorrow makes us children again.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
- Angelou, Maya

You see much more of your children once they leave home.
- Ball, Lucille

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
- Chase, Alexander

Children have more need of models than of critics.
- Coats, Carolyn

Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.
- Diana, Princess of Wales

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
- Edwards, Harry

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
- Fielding, Henry

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
- Fyfe, David

Children always turn to the light.
- Hare, David