children

1.

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

- Harold S. Hulbert

2.

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

- Vaughan, Thomas

3.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

- Henry Miller

4.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

- Franklin, Benjamin

5.

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

- Howe, Edgar Watson

6.

Alas! regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

- Gray, Thomas

7.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

8.

Where children are, there is the golden age.

- Novalis

9.

There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

- Baldwin, James

10.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

- Chase, Alexander

12.

Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.

- Luther, Martin

13.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

14.

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

- Weldon, Fay

15.

Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.

- Sumner, Gordon

16.

It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

17.

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

- W. H. Auden

18.

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

19.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.

- Shakespeare, William

20.

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

- Ziglar, Zig