My Children Quotes
Perhaps the greatest importance of the family, in these days of contraceptives, is that it preserves the habit of having children.
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.
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew." - Pocahontas
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
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.
…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.
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers." ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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..
It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.
. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
I loved it in the unconditional way that children love their first home.
Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.
By the 1960s the United States had a new ruling class—the teenager!
To injure, ignore, disrespect, and violate the innocence of a child are among the greatest evils known to man.
Before the seventeenth century, a child passed directly into the adult world between the ages of five and seven . . . then came the industrial revolution . . .so the child-centered home was born.
Children must be taught obedience just as much as they need to be taught to read and write.
It may shock some parents to learn that we don’t own our children. God has given them to us in trust . . . however, God may transfer our children to His home at any time.
I missed the joy of seeing our children grow and change. I thank God for watching over them during those years.
Our lives speak loudly to those around us, especially the children in our home.
One of life’s mysteries is why two children growing up in the same home sometimes take radically different paths—one following Christ, the other rebellious and scornful. Yet it happens.
God gave us our children so we could prepare them to become adults.
Children will learn far more by watching than by just listening.
One of the worst things we can do is allow our children to grow up thinking they don’t need to keep any rules. A spoiled child becomes a spoiled adult.
Love your children—and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.
There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him.
Children respect discipline. They want to be guided. It gives them a sense of belonging, a sense of security.
One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.
In these writings, and in all my teaching work, I continue to ask the question, “What about the children?
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?
The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.
What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?
And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat" (23).
At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.
Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.
(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.
There's nothing more important in this world than caring for a child.
Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.
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.
