My Children Quotes
Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.
Count it one of the highest virtues upon earth to educate faithfully the children of others, which so few, and scarcely any, do by their own.
The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.
Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.
I think what we've done is given children a lot of things that they didn't ask for instead of what they do want.
As children of God we are somebody. He will build us, mold us, and magnify us if we will but hold our heads up, our arms out, and walk with him.
I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.
But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.
One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.
Life is too short to waste time changing the sheets every week. Especially when you have small children who tend to wait until you change the sheets to then wet the sheets.
advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.
I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.
I became very aware of how important it is to connect with children - possibly for the children, if they're in the mood for that - but certainly for the adults.
It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was their bad karma and they must have hurt a child in a past life.
I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.
In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world
I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.
You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.
Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.
Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.
The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.
... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.
Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.
My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.
As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.
I have a child and I don't want to be at work all the time when he's small. I want to spend time with him.
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.
She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began; looking into those eyes was like looking into a well where children had drowned.
I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.
Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.
I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.
While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.
Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.
Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
