Quotes About Children

I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves. Break the cycle.

None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.

Unschooling is creating an environment in which children can learn easily and naturally all the time.

Children need systems that are inclusive and driven by them, systems that will enable them to respond to their feelings and needs at any time.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of their own, and I understand that time erases whiteness altogether.

Now's the time when children's noses All become as red as roses And the colour of their faces Makes me think of orchard places Where the juicy apples grow, And tomatoes in a row.

I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

Peggy and Kelvin had one daughter—and then a second—and they proved to be good parents to Mariah and Taylor

shot the kids, and I watched—Yeah, I watched. That's right, I watched, 'cause that son

I mark my years or parenting by the people who stepped in and forced me to abandon my inclination to meddle, micromanage, and coddle, beginning with my children's father, who sat me down and told me in year two that I was going to create a little monster if I continuted to act as though no and I don't love you were synonomous.

I know from experience that those least capable of truly assessing any marriage are the children who come out of it. We style them as we need them, to excuse our faults, to insulate ourselves from our own expendability or indispensability.

Some people measure their success by the profession their children have chosen, by the purchase of a house, by how often they visit or call. But the only measurement, truly, is something that's quite subjective: have you raised good people?

My husband and I have together created three children, but we have separate finances, and that's the way I like it.

children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes its only ones.

It's children, children whose parents' marriage is bedrock for them even if they're not children anymore. Perhaps especially if they're not children anymore.

Whatever was wrong, in either her or her brother, he would encourage by laughing at, if not by actually praising: people little know the injury they do to children by laughing at their faults, and making a pleasant jest of what their true friends have endeavoured to teach them to hold in grave abhorrence.

If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over-indulgence.  I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.