Quotes About Children

Lucky she was, she would reply, with no children to break her back, no husband to break her heart.

and left. When the three children died in the same year she remained indifferent to Nikolai's loss. Worse than enduring a tyrannical parent is to be the favored child.

He treated Root exactly as he treated prime numbers. For him, primes were the base on which all other natural numbers relied; and children were the foundation of everything worthwhile in the adult world

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children

we need an education that enhances individual strengths, follows children's passions,

Sabías que México ocupa el primer lugar dentro de la OCDE en violencia física, abuso sexual y maltrato a menores de 14 años? ¡Qué lástima que en esto sí nos ganemos el primer lugar!

Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!

I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god is not a very good father. When it comes down to it, you can't trust him with your kids.

As the black night descended from the heavens, I knew that in the blink of an eye I would witness the death of the sunset. I saw the exposed and firm chest of the vast earth; its pose was one of calling, of beckoning. And just as a mother beckons her children, so the earth beckoned the coming of night.

Finally, rocking the whole harbour and carrying to every city windows; besetting kitchens with dinner on the stove, and shoddy hotel bedrooms where sheets are never changed, and desks waiting for children to come home, and schools and tennis courts and graveyards; plunging everything into a moment of grief and ruthlessly tearing even the hearts of the uninvolved, the Rakuyo's horn screamed out one last enormous farewell. Trailing white smoke, she sailed straight out to sea.

Incluso Estados Unidos, ultracapitalista, se ha dado cuenta de que la protección de la libertad requiere al menos algunos servicios de bienestar facilitados por el gobierno. Los niños hambrientos no tienen libertades.

Açl?k çeken çocuklar?n özgürlü?ünden söz edilemez

Cómo pudieron los expertos no apreciar que los niños tienen necesidades emocionales, y que su salud mental y física depende de cubrir estas necesidades tanto como las de alimento, refugio y medicinas?

The human care industry – which takes care of the sick, the young and the elderly – is likely to remain a human bastion for a long time. Indeed, as people live longer and have fewer children, care of the elderly will probably be one of the fastest-growing sectors in the human labour market.

Kahneman found that when counting moments of joy and moments of drudgery, bringing up a child turns out to be a rather unpleasant affair.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

From the very earliest ages, our children need to know that they belong to God. God created them for a purpose, and He created them in His image. We are all His image-bearers. We bear His likeness. Our ability to think, love, and communicate indicates that we were created in God's likeness.

Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians.

You know, Marco, they can leave us, they can grow old, but it's like they're still here, running around our feet, just like when they were little tykes.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they've never failed to imitate them.

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.