children Quotes

“I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

topic:courage war children

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for, when they scrawl their names in the snow.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:writing children

“We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence? or at any rate not...”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

topic:children existence

“It is again a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but remembering and recalling them.”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Old Age

topic:knowledge children

“There is more to do. We need to prepare our children to read and succeed in school with improved Head Start and early childhood development programs.”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

topic:reading children

“Preparing for the future must begin, as always, with our children. We need to set for them new and more rigorous goals.”

― Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

topic:future children

“They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“to control the child one must often control oneself.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:education children

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