All GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Quotes about “Children”

“Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.”
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
“At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.”
“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”
“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.”
“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”
“The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.”
“Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do”
“Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.”
“There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.”
“I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.”
“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.”
“If parents would only realize how they bore their children.”
“I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.”
“The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.”
“If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community”
“I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.”
“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.”
“What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.”

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