Use children in a sentence | example usage from the newswires — Page #214

Editorial »

How to use the word children in a Sentence? Page #214

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

5,458 results found

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents. – G.K. Chesterton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. – Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up. – Barbara Bush	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors--they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident. – Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan	added by anonymous 13 years ago
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical? – Alan Perlis	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A second wifeis hateful to the children of the first;a viper is not more hateful. – Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. – John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our children change us…whether they live or not. – Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. – Juvenal	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. – Hubert H. Humphrey	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Pressure? This is just a football match. When you do not know how to feed your children, that is pressure. – Jose Luis Chilavert, Goal keeper for Paraguay, said during France 98 World Cup (soccer/football)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. – Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I love children - especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. – Nancy Mitford	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children. – Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are. – Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. – Ludwig van Beethoven	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. – Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epcot Center	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country. – Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child. – A. S. Neill, Summerhill	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

Notify me of new comments via email.

Are we missing a good definition for children? Don't keep it to yourself...

Word of the Day

Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

The Web's Largest Resource for

Definitions & Translations

A Member Of The STANDS4 Network

Free, no signup required:

Add to Chrome

Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

Free, no signup required:

Add to Firefox

Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

Browse Definitions.net

#A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Random New Words

Quiz

Are you a words master?

»

the act of catching an object with the hands

A brasserie

B snap

C hypernym

D anil