Quotes
Quotes about Children
Nuclear waste is a heavy burden to lay on our children and their children and their children's children and their children's children's children and their children's children's children's children...
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.
In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Women know The way to rear up children (to be just); They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words; Which things are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles.
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears.
[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.
The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium virtutum.]
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child.
Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present.
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Children have more need of models than critics.
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.
It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.
An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time. Doc Childre, A Parenting Manual: Heart Hope for the Family -Doc Childre.
Children are poor men's riches.
