关于children的英语名言

武夷山 辑译

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

培养强壮的孩子比疗复毁损了的成年人要容易。

——Frederick Douglass，19世纪美国废奴运动领袖

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

让我们牺牲自己的今天，从而让我们的孩子拥有更美好的明天。

——A.P. J. Abdul Kalam，印度前总统卡拉姆

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

一个人能够留给自己儿孙的最宝贵遗产不是自己一生积攒的钱财或其他物质性的东西，而是遗传给他们的品格和信念。

——Billy Graham（1918-2018），美国著名的葛培理牧师

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

人们谈到游戏的时候，往往将之视为严肃的学习活动之外的一种放松。但是对儿童而言，游戏就是严肃的学习活动。游戏其实就是儿童的功课。 ——Fred Rogers，美国著名儿童节目制作人

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

要想深刻地揭示一个社会的灵魂，没有比一个社会对待其少年儿童的方式更能说明问题的了。  ——Nelson Mandela，南非国父曼德拉

Adults are obsolete children.

成人是过了气的孩子。

——Dr. Seuss（1904-1991），美国儿童文学作家苏斯博士  

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

别担心孩子从来不听话；要担心的是孩子总在观察你的言行

——Robert Fulghum，美国当代作家

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

你能给以孩子的最有价值的礼物是责任心之根和独立性之翼。

——Denis Waitley。美国著名演讲家

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.

有人曾说过，对一个政府的道德测试，就是看它如何对待处于人生黎明阶段的人，即孩子；如何对待处于人生黄昏阶段的人，即老人；如何对待处于人生阴影之中的人，即病人、穷人和残疾人。

——Hubert H. Humphrey（1911-1978），美国政治家，曾任副总统