Quotes About Children

By fulfilling our divinely appointed jobs as parents, we can be God's tools that define and refine our children as they are sculpted into the individuals that He wants them to be.

My greatest blessings are my life, my children and my family.

Children are gentle and heed. Adults are tough and seize. Wise men and women have the strength and flexibility to do what's right.

Never put a single thought of weakness in the flourishing minds of the children. Fill them up with vigour and compassion, for their character will define the future of the entire human species.

To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

Children have imagination enough to grasp any idea which you present to them with honesty and without patronage.

If the day ever comes that it (Deep Space Nine) isn't safe for kids to run around this station we all need to pack up and go home.

The children are the future, so, let's tell them about tomorrow's hope rather than yesterday's despair.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.

People who smile tend to manage, teach and sell more effectively, and to raise happier children. There's far more information in a smile than a frown. That's why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.

Courage and honor, respect and even pity, justice and, yes, you may not like for me to say it, but let me use the word - love? Do you know these words, Mahn? A love for your children, so deep that you would die for them? Or maybe a love of justice, so pure that it demands that you speak out? These are the feelings that push the world forward.

The culture without children is forever immature, self-obsessed and rightous. They cannot help the high opinion they have of themselves; there's no kids around to show them otherwise.

After the death of a parent, children will typically start to worry about your safety as their mother, so they will need extra reassurance from you.

We have expectations of our friends. I thought she was gone forever, off to Baby World, like all the other people in my life who've had children: Miriam,

As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.

The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.

Most of us, when that time comes, won't be able to avoid the feelings that we somehow could have been better parents—that we could have done more, could have been more effective, more loving, more perceptive, or could have been better examples to our children. But we will have more peace of mind if we know we have at least passed on to them a few of the most important things in life—the values that will help them become successful, competent, caring, and ethical adults.

Children are paparazzi. They take your picture when you don't want them to.

There is nothing you will regret more in your life — nothing — than not being present for your children

Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we've built around them.

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

She wanted children and considered having them a "privilege," but art also "was a privilege given to me and I had to pursue it.

It became clear to me that they expected children to submit to the school system and sacrifice their own interests, even if that would break their spirit. I

Young children see the innocence of life, while some adults live in innocence.