Quotes About Children

God desires that all children be committed to the love and care of a mother and a father.

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

Who are we? We are children of God. Our potential is unlimited. Our inheritance is sacred. May we always honor that heritage - in every thought and deed.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.

The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

Schools are not about enabling children to have a living but about children being able to have a life.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I frequently faced life and death situations, and had to come up with the right diagnosis, the right plan, and execute that plan frequently with other colleagues.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

There's no doubt that motherhood is the best thing in my life. It's all that really matters.

We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies that are going to come their way.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

Nothing is more important in our national life than the welfare of our children.

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