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Quotes About Children

Siempre hemos tenido miedo - me dijo-, pero a veces es más fuerte el amor a nuestros hijos que el miedo
~ Johann Hari
the more a child is read storybooks—something the parents, more than the kid, choose—the better they are at reading other people's emotions.
~ Johann Hari
I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.
~ Johann Lamont
We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
do they know when we are well and happy? do they know when we recall their memories with the fondest love? In the silent hour of evening the shade of my mother hovers around me; when seated in the midst of my children, I see them assembled near me, as they used to assemble near her; and then I raise my anxious eyes to heaven, and wish she could look down upon us, and witness how I fulfil the promise I made to her in her last moments, to be a mother to her children.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
~ Uma Thurman
I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.
~ Steffi Graf
My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.
~ Agnetha Faltskog
The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children
~ George Will
Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.
~ Bruce Cockburn
As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.
~ Gresham Barrett
First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.
~ Jenji Kohan
The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.
~ Samuel Smiles
Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
~ Shirley Jackson
I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.
~ Walt Disney
Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.
~ Murasaki Shikibu
Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.
~ Ogden Nash
I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.
~ Celine Dion
Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.
~ Marco Rubio
No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
~ Bob Riley
We are proud to have a platform through the Dr Phil show and the Dr. Phil Foundation to offer children the voice they need to meet their goals in having a better life.
~ Phil McGraw
the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
~ Golda Meir