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Quotes About Children

Kirgizskaia Pravda of 17 January 1966 quoted an underground Christian leaflet to mothers: 'Let us join our efforts and prayers to dedicate to God the lives of our children from the time they are in the cradle! Let us save our children from the influence of the world.
~ Richard Wurmbrand
Most of your statues in churches do not correspond to the picture I have of you. In the statues you are shown very much like a nun, with a rosary in your hand. You are smiling serenely. But nuns have no children. You have. Your true likeness has yet to be depicted.
~ Richard Wurmbrand
He had torn a ragged wound in it, laying open its moist white meat, but it wouldn't break, it wouldn't give, and it made the children laugh each time the shovel bounced and rang in his hands. The delicate noise of their laughter, the look of their tulip-soft skin and of their two sunny skulls, as fragile as eggshell, made a terrible contrast to the feel of biting steel and shuddering pulp, and it was his sense of this that made his eyes commit a distortion of truth.
~ Richard Yates
Plus, you're the last Dragomir. You're always going to be in the spotlight. Who's she? Just another Ivashkov. There are tons of them.' 'Probably because all the guys like Adrian and have all sorts of illegitimate children.' 'Adrian doesn't have any children.' 'That we know of,' I said mysteriously.
~ Richelle Mead
I've always made it a rule in my life not to pick fights with children, cute animals, or ignorant old men. I will, however, make an exception for you if you ever touch or insult my wife again.
~ Richelle Mead
You make learning fun. Like a children's book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women.
~ Richelle Mead
She has very strong ideas about family - ideas that probably sound kind of sexist to you. She believes all dhampirs should train and put in time as guardians, but that the women should eventually return home to raise their children together. But not the men? No, he said wryly. She thinks men still need to stay out there and kill Strigoi.
~ Richelle Mead
Tradition or not, I sometimes thought putting children on an old guy's lap was already creepy enough. We didn't need to mix alcohol into it.
~ Richelle Mead
Aunque haya padres ilegítimos, no hay hijos ilegítimos. Muchos hijos no son planeados por sus padres, sino por Dios. El propósito divino tuvo en cuenta el fallo humano, inclusive el pecado.
~ Rick Warren
THE BREATHING, THE ENDLESS NEWS each god is empty without us, penitent, raking our yards into windblown piles. . . . Children know this: they are the trailings of gods.
~ Rita Dove
I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
~ Roald Dahl
When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY!
~ Roald Dahl
There aren't many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,' Matilda said. 'Do you think that all children's books ought to have funny bits in them?' Miss Honey asked. 'I do,' Matilda said. 'Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.
~ Roald Dahl
In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.
~ Roald Dahl
A message To the children who have read this book. When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important. A stodgy parent is no fun at all! What a child wants -and DESERVES- is a parent who is SPARKY! - Danny, the champion of the world.
~ Roald Dahl
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
~ Roald Dahl
I'm afraid the camera got smashed against the side of the Space Hotel, Mr. President," Shuckworth replied. The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents.
~ Roald Dahl
I, Willy Wonka, have decided to allow five children – just five, mind you, and no more – to visit my factory this year.
~ Roald Dahl
Children should never have baths,' my grandmother said. 'It's a dangerous habit.' 'I agree, Grandmamma.
~ Roald Dahl
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~ Roald Dahl
Occasionally one comes across parents who take the opposite line, who show no interest at all in their children, and these of course are far worse than the doting ones.
~ Roald Dahl
But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL WITCHES.
~ Roald Dahl
I padri e le madri sono tipi strani: anche se il figlio è il più orribile moccioso che si possa immaginare, sono convinti che si tratti di un bambino stupendo. Niente di male: il mondo è fatto così. Ma quando dei genitori cominciano a spiegarci che il loro orrendo pargolo è un autentico genio, viene proprio da urlare: — Presto, una bacinella! Ho una nausea tremenda!
~ Roald Dahl
RSPCC MEETING STRICTLY PRIVATE THIS ROOM IS RESERVED FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
~ Roald Dahl