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| Very young CHILDREN eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favourites of the nursery. | A. S. W. Rosenbach | |
| There are times when God asks nothing of his CHILDREN except silence, patience and tears. | C. S. Robinson | |
| The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their CHILDREN to speak it. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| Get over the idea that only CHILDREN should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. | Henry L. Doherty | 1870-1939, American Utilities Executive/Engineer |
| We should not teach CHILDREN the sciences; but give them a taste for them. | Jean Jacques Rousseau | 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist |
| There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skillful that he obtains identical results in all CHILDREN in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! | Maria Montessori | 1870-1952, Italian Educator |
| Learning to dislike CHILDREN at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. | Robert Byrne | |
| At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim CHILDREN merely punch time clocks. | E.E. | Edward. E.) Cummings (1894-1962, American Poet |
| Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his CHILDREN to be treated. this is not the case. | John F. Kennedy | 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA |
| Finance, like time, devours its own CHILDREN. | Honore De Balzac | 1799-1850, French Novelist |
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| An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His CHILDREN. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others. | A. W. Tozer | ?-1963, American Preacher |
| A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in. | Adolph Meyer | |
| The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their CHILDREN by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown. | Adrienne Rich | 1929-, American Poet |
| Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary. | Al Capp | 1909-1979, American Cartoonist |
| The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain CHILDREN all our lives. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| There are few successful adults who were not first successful CHILDREN. | Alexander Chase | |
| Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| It needs courage to let our CHILDREN go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back to life--to God. As the old saying puts it: ''What I gave I have.'' We have to love them and lose them. | Alfred Torrie | |
| A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far. | Alice Meynell | 1847-1922, British Poet, Essayist |
| 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. | Alice Walker | 1944-, American Author, Critic |
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| Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their CHILDREN is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. | Allan Bloom | 1930-1992, American Educator, Author |
| It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their CHILDREN. | Ama Ata Aidoo | 1942-, Ghanaian Author |
| Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its centre and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until CHILDREN appear to animate and complete the picture. | Amos Bronson Alcott | 1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer |
| Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your CHILDREN in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads. | Andre Breton | 1989-1966, French Surrealist |
| Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. | Anna Jameson | 1794-1860, British Essayist |
| We are supposed to be the CHILDREN of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization. | Anthony Burgess | 1917-1993, British Writer, Critic |
| Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their CHILDREN. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. | Anthony Powell | 1905-, British Novelist |
| There is no sinner like a young saint. | Aphra Behn | 1640-1689, British Playwright, Poet |
| Those who educate CHILDREN well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
| This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their CHILDREN than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own. | Aristotle | BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher |
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| Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense. | Austin O'Malley | |
| I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my CHILDREN they just about throw up. | Barbara Bush | 1925-, American First Lady, Wife of President George Bush |
| You have to love your CHILDREN unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way. | Barbara Bush | 1925-, American First Lady, Wife of President George Bush |
| The greatest gift you and your partner can give your CHILDREN is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship. | Barbara De Angelis | American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author |
| 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. | Beatrix Campbell | 1947-, British Journalist |
| It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner. | Ben Bergor | |
| An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own CHILDREN. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| The more people have studied different methods of bringing up CHILDREN the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. | Benjamin Spock | 1903-, American Pediatrician |
| The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their CHILDREN to be a credit to them. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
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| Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Fathers do not exasperate your CHILDREN; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. [Ephesians 6:4] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Except ye be converted, and become as little CHILDREN, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. [Mathew] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| I have no greater joy then to hear that my CHILDREN walk in truth. [John 4] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much. | Bill Cosby | 1937-, American Actor, Comedian, Producer |
| A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. | Bill Vaughan | 1915-1977, American Author, Journalist |
| 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. | Black Elk | 19th Century American Native Religious Leader |
| Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued. | Bob Hope | 1903-, American Comedian, Actor |
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