Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
Deepak ChopraDo not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction. No read in order to live.
Gustave FlaubertIt is a wise father that knows his own child.
William ShakespeareOne of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is I think to have a happy childhood.
Agatha ChristieEvery book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Mitch HedbergSince it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.
C. S. LewisIf you want real peace in the world, start with children.
Mahatma GandhiIt's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
Nicholas SparksLove the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.
BuddhaYour 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.
Kahlil GibranAs long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Coco ChanelWe have to handover the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least as it was handed over to us.
Mahatma GandhiNo man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
PlatoYou’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
Dr. SeussEverybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
Mother TeresaChildren are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDon't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
Tiger WoodsThe dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
Henry Ward BeecherAll God's children need traveling shoes.
Maya AngelouEvery man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert CamusCare about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying. As every child is the little Buddha whom helps his parents to grow up.
BuddhaAll children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo PicassoIn general, my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
Erma BombeckTo bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh BillingsChildren's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya AngelouAnyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
W. C. FieldsMy songs are like my children - I expect them to support me when I'm old.
Dolly PartonBy failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
Paul RyanAll men are children and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David ThoreauTell the children the truth.
Bob MarleyTo make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
John RuskinA drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel ButlerWhat is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William BlakeAll of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
Hillary ClintonChildren are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward BeecherCherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon HillMothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
AristotleAge merely shows what children we remain.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYou are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Kahlil GibranBuildings too are children of Earth and Sun.
Frank Lloyd WrightChildren are completely egoistic, they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Sigmund FreudA mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor HugoAdults are obsolete children.
Dr. SeussMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace ThackerayI have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.
Mitt RomneyWomen have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation, of children in arms, and men in love.
H. L. MenckenIf children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
Richard DawkinsChildren are the anchors of a mother's life.
SophoclesLearning is not child's play, we cannot learn without pain.
AristotleAllow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel JohnsonWhy should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich FrommSometimes it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert because, frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.
Michelle ObamaEach day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. SwindollYou know, nothing is more important than education because nowhere are our stakes higher, our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerFamiliarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark TwainAll of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma BombeckThis 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.
AristotleMany societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Margaret MeadChildren are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Desmond TutuDon't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
Fran LebowitzAlways be nice to your children, because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis DillerEducate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Benjamin FranklinElephants and grandchildren never forget.
Andy RooneyOur 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. KennedyHuman beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill CosbyDespair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.
Herman HesseIt goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Erma BombeckTechnology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill GatesI 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 GandhiParents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory, children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George SantayanaChildren wish fathers looked but with their eyes, fathers that children with their judgment looked, and either may be wrong.
William ShakespeareChildren are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous HuxleyAs I get older all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.
P. J. O'RourkeIf 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 GandhiChildren are God's Apostles sent forth, day by day, to preach of love and hope and peace.
James Russell LowellChildren now expect their parents to audition for approval.
Mason CooleyI will have to earn trust and respect from my kids.
Tiger WoodsAnother good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
Woody AllenAs much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John AdamsChildren are not our property and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.
Richard BachAll children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore VidalWhy should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
Groucho MarxI hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation, and kids all around the world who admired me.
Tiger WoodsDo not say 'It is morning ' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
Rabindranath TagoreAfter I had my son Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.
Christina AguileraChildhood has its secrets and its mysteries, but who can tell or who can explain them!
Max MullerMother Veda is compassionate, she longs to liberate her children from doubt and discontent. She has no desire to inflame or confuse, wise men know this well.
Sai BabaIn old times elders used to tell the young children all about the nation's great heroes and saints. Where are such elders today?
Sai BabaIf the parent is a drunkard a gambler and a cheat no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like children and the young innocence. I will not allow them to be blamed. The fault lies wholly on the shoulders of the elders, the parents and the leaders who shape the norms which they imbibe.
Sai BabaA Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. MenckenChildhood is a short season.
Helen HayesAll are children of Bliss (The seeker of bliss) has emerged from bliss and he wants to return to bliss.
Sai BabaFrom the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
Rabindranath TagoreI'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
Lucille BallA happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteIf we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
Barack ObamaA blank slate -- and you get to play.
George CarlinAll of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men values and dislikes are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces places and maybe races tactics intensities and goals but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.
Maya AngelouNow is the moment when we can stand up and say 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.
Mitt Romney