C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.”
“Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why.”
Source: Killosophy
“Children are the most ridiculous things ever invented....”
Source: Tanglewreck
“Children are the most valuable teachers.”
“Children are the most vulnerable and susceptible to become victims of human trafficking.”
“Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the hand of god.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations
“Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.”
“Children are the next generation under construction.”
“Children are the ones that know exactly what's going on in the world, you know. They 'see' more than adults, 'believe' in more, are honest, and will always, 'always' let you know where you stand.”
Source: If You Could See Me Now
“Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.”
“Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.”
Source: Five plays
“Children are the only ones who don't want anything of me.”
“Children are the precious blessing from God our creator and they are the most honest, loving, caring, trusting, accepting and forgiving creatures in the universe. Thank you Lord for our healthy and beautiful children and thank you for our healthy and beautiful grandchildren.”
“Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most impossible thing, but there's nothing else . . . Life is a riddle and they are the answer. If there's any answer, it has to be them.”
Source: I Don't Know How She Does It
“Children are the purest of dog lovers.”
Source: Tomorrow
“Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.”
Source: A Christmas Mystery: The Story of Three Wise Men
“Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.”
“Children are the seed for peace or violence in the future, depending on how they are cared for and stimulated. Thus, their family and community environment must be sown to grow a fairer and more fraternal world, a world to serve life and hope.”
“Children are the true believers, and some of us are lucky enough to make the transition to adulthoood without ever losing the ability to see through young eyes.”
Source: Down in the Garden
“Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value.”
Source: This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections
“Children are the ultimate investment of all of those that want to make money, to sell, to dominate. So there are two meanings. They are our ultimate investment for anyone who is honest and ethical and loving, but also for all the commerce.”
“Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.”
“Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.”
“Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”
“Children are the world's most valuable resource.”
“Children are, though, the last to be consulted on issues of their own welfare, so our opinions went unheard.”
Source: Topics About Which I Know Nothing
“Children are time machines that we send into a future we'll never see.”
Source: Deadly Class: Compendium
“Children are to be welcomed, cherished, protected.”
“Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.”
Source: Plutarch's Morals
“Children are touched by heaven—their every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the desert wanderer. I could not have known this as a child, but I know it as a mother, a truth I learned as my own heart grew, bent, danced, and broke for each of my children”
Source: When the Moon is Low
“Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.”
“Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.”
“Children are turning themselves into monsters and, quite frankly, it is your fault. You initiated the creation of this technology, then you allowed it to slip through your fingers.”
Miriam’s jaw tightened. “I disagree, but now is the least optimal time imaginable for assigning blame. People are dying, and I will not stand around debating semantics with you while they are.”
Source: Dissonance
“Children are unaccountable little creatures.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)
“children are under our care; we need to take good care of them!”
“Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.”
“Children are very fair minded, they really are.”
“Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive our slightest defects. It general those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.”
“Children are very overprotected now, in lots of ways. We're very nervous about them. You know, people go, "Don't go outside! Or inside! Get into the cupboard with some spinach!" When I was a child they'd kick you out and you weren't expected to come back until there were bats!”
“Children are very quick observers; very quick in seeing through some kinds of hypocrisy, very quick in finding out what you really think and feel, very quick in adopting all your ways and opinions. You will often discover that, as the father is, so is the son.”
Source: The Duties of Parents
“Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.”
“Children are very strong and independent characters and can come up with more interesting things than Marlon Brando, and it's sometimes very difficult to direct or order them to do something.”
“Children are very wise
intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only pretends.”
“Children are victims of a social problem that wounds the family.”
“Children are way more articulate, way more connected to their rights, and they want to be fully participating, empowered members of society but we have to release and we have to let go. We have to allow children to enter their self-governance and their state of empowered presence.”
“Children are wealth. Children are more valuable than any dollar you will ever earn or ever spend. They are more fun than college scholarships, diving saves, home runs, or buzzer-beating threes. They are more fun than women fawning over you and your name in lights.”
Source: Knitting
“Children are what the mothers are.”
“Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.”
Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz
“Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.”
“Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.”