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Quotes including the word “children”.

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Beethoven

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Amílcar Cabral

Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children.

Chanel

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Leonard Cohen

“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”

Democritus

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Democritus

Excessive desires characterize children, no men.

Diderot

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

Dostoevsky

The soul is healed by being with children.

Alexandre Dumas

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

Sigmund Freud

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis … mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis.

Goethe

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Maxim Gorky

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Isokratis

Treat your parents as you would like your children to behave to you.

Maria Kallas

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

L. Martin King,

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.

Lenin

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Norman Mailer

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Gabriela Mistral

We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow,’ his name is today.

Montessori

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Montessori

When a child is given a little leeway, he will at once shout, ’I want to do it!’ But in our schools, which have an environment adapted to children’s needs, they say, ‘Help me to do it alone.

Montessori

As we observe children, we see the vitality of their spirit, the maximum effort put forth in all they do, the intuition, attention and focus they bring to all life’s events, and the sheer joy they experience in living.

Sarojini Naidu

Till ye have battled with great grief and fears/And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years/Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife/Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.”

Bismarck von Otto

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Pavarotti

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Sylvia Plath

Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

Rubadiri

The children's laughter sounds loud Bringing back to me Simple joys I once knew .

Bertrand Russell

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Bernard Shaw

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Onesimo Silveira

Children will be children! Black and blonde and white Shall be the petals of the same flower…

John Steinbeck

Ιt takes courage to raise children.

Anne Sullivan

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Thales

Whatever you offer to your parents , the same expect from your children

Derek Walcott

“What are men? Children who doubt.”