American Children

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or children:

“The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self- service populace, and all our specious comforts—the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria—are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

“If the elders have no values, their children and grandchildren will turn out badly.”
—Chinese proverb.