Children Quotes

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Character, Live, Dream

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan

Freedom, Same, Away

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

Life, Nature, Men

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

Time, Judge, Parents

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Through, Though

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

Beauty, Truth, Lives

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass

Men, Strong, Broken

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Jessica Lange

Mother, Become, Universe

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil Gibran

Wisdom, Laugh, Philosophy

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain

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

Ignorance, Talent, Endure

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Live, Integrity, Caring

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh

Love, Mother, Father

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
P. J. O'Rourke

Everybody, Knows, Except

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle

Life, Art, Living

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy

Future, Same, Common

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy

Care, Minds, Modern

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill

Dreams, Soul, Ultimate

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
Ted Nugent

Today, Bad, Parents

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain

Contempt, Breeds

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Pope John XXIII

Father, Real, Easier

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mahatma Gandhi

Peace, War, Real

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Thomas Jefferson

Between, Learn, Whole

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Government, Sick

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi

Evil, Soul, Seen

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

May, Eyes, Wish

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle

Mothers, Fathers, Fonder

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
Jackie Kennedy

Else, Whatever, Matters

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama

Work, Today, Making

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

Home, Human, Earth

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