The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. —David Friedman More about this quote Tags: war force children nations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When all is said and done, the act of being a parent involves a set of radically unselfish and often incomprehensibly inconvenient activities. Two adults who could otherwise employ their time and resources in pleasurable activities of various kinds elect to seek housing and provide food and other facilities for completely dependent organisms whose personal schedules, furthermore, could not be at greater variance with adult ones, and who will involve their parents literally for decades in a compromise between a program of work or pleasure and the requirements of their offspring. It is not altogether remarkable that parents may have one child, if only in error or because of confused expectations of bliss. What is truly remarkable is that most parents have more than one child. —Lionel Tiger More about this quote Tags: children parenthood dependence compromise expectations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Because children see parents as authority figures and gods, they think that the way you treat them is the way they deserve to be treated: “What you say about me is what I am” is a literal truth to your child. Consequently, when children are treated with respect, they conclude that they deserve respect and hence develop self-respect. —Stephanie Marston More about this quote Tags: truth children parents influence authority respect Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. —Katharine Whitehorn More about this quote Tags: children money poverty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them — children, duties, visits, bores, relations: the things that protect married people from each other. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: love relationships people children marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. —Clarence Darrow More about this quote Tags: life children parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. —Dorothy Parker More about this quote Tags: children home parenting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Children are all foreigners. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: wonder children foreignness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does. —Evan Esar More about this quote Tags: children conscience family parents girls boys Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: learning soul children schooling harm Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. —Gaston Bachelard More about this quote Tags: life perception children Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, avoiding our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. —Garrison Keillor More about this quote Tags: gratitude children generosity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: children elders imitation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. —John Ruskin More about this quote Tags: love children giving Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. —Harry S. Truman More about this quote Tags: advice children desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email