Quotes and Sayings About Children
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If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
-- Abraham Kaplan -
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.
-- Abraham Lincoln