Quotes About Children

Don't you want it?" "Want what?" "The engagement ring." "Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me?" Boy, this was such a big transgression I would have to write it in block letters on its own page, and show it to our children when they grew up as an example of how not to do something.

Steven cupped his hands behind his head and gazed up at the ceiling while he imagined how it would be if everything was all right in New Orleans, if he could take Emma to Fairhaven and make a life with her there. He even went so far as to think about the children she might bear him, to picture them playing on the green lawns and sliding in their stocking feet on the slick floor of the ballroom. He

than she was, but for the next three days—or was it four?—the kids' meals would be her responsibility. "Let's go out for pizza!" Matt suggested exuberantly. He was standing on the raised hearth of the double fireplace that served both the kitchen and dining room, and Sharon

The Old Testament is not the words of an angry God; rather, it is the admonition of a loving Father who wanted his children to live life at their best. Jesus didn't change God's mind in the New Testament. Jesus came to reveal the Father's heart.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. —MARGARET MEAD

Small children take shelter," I murmur. "The elderly head downhill. The inexperienced follow the path of least resistance." "And

Oh no. I don't do children. They're small, needy, easily destroyed. Let's be honest. I've come a long way from my family history

I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

That's how I try to think of education - a school is a miniature society where children learn to function in a real world.

When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.

Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

I think I'd be a really good dad. So perhaps I'm doing society a disservice by not having as many kids as possible.