Quotes About Children

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.

Children teach you so much. You take another look at life when you have a child. Everything is new again for you. They ground you.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life

What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

I am a responsible parent and have always provided for my children. That fact cannot be disputed. I have made mistakes in my life, but failing to care for my children is not one of them.

Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.

You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

For me, now, working and children is it. Theres nothing more to life.

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

My children are the most important thing in my life.

My hopes are that I can give my children security, health, and the confidence to create the life they want and serve others.

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.