Children Quotes
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.
I didn't just see a child in my dreams—I felt it in my heart.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life's work shows our children that we don't chase form and fortune for ourselves we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent I had a pretty unhappy home life.
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.
The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in experimentation and in exploration of their environments.
In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.
Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers." ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?
Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in theirpower, which no subsequent connections can supply..
Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.
