Quotes About Children

The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

But since the great foundation of fear in children is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

I take to be political power; that the power of a magistrate over a subject may be distinguished from that of a father over his children, a master over his servants, a husband over his wife, and a lord over his slave.

Children, I confess, are not born in this state of equality, though they are born to it.

all parents were, by the law of nature, "under an obligation to preserve, nourish, and educate the children" they had begotten; not as their own workmanship, but the workmanship of their own maker, the Almighty, to whom they were to be accountable for them.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

The important is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

We must give our children fear. It is a rich and immensely valuable experience to know fear. Fear in context, fear that exists in complex relationships with other forces, fear that has limits and can be contained within safe places: this is the only way people at the beginning of their life journeys can develop an arsenal powerful enough to ensure that those journeys are healthy, satisfying and successful.

Politicians who use 'getting tough on law and order' as an election slogan are exploiting those who were abused as children, in order to gain power for themselves.

tried to mix science with theology. He believed in a heaven where perfect truth presided, and he stood convinced that young children, recently arrived from that transcendent realm, were the unheeded messengers of a sacred revelation. He deemed it the work of the teacher to preserve and call forth this natural divinity of the child. If the world's teachers could find

Children have never been good at listening to their parents, but they have never failed to imitate them.

preschoolers demand some form of attention 180 times per hour, behavioral psychologists say),

Kids come into the world before their brains are fully developed. The result? Parenthood.

The more people this can spread to, the more chance we have to build a global platform that allows us to reach out to the children all over the world to breath in the light and blow out the darkness,"

All a mother wants, Margot, is for her children to be happy. And that may take different forms at different times.

saying so regardless, for the kids' sake. Was it possible that Arch's spirit resided here, that his soul

You will never, ever understand how much I love you…until you have children of your own and then every word I've ever said will make perfect sense.

parents didn't stop loving their children for any reason. Love, then, Connie decided. The most important lesson is love.

None of you children seem to have inherited my love of gardening (unless you count Nick, and the pot plants in the attic)

Hollis consults Grown and Flown, her favorite website for parenting older children, as she tries to figure out what to do.

and asks how the hotel is coming along, Lizbet changes the subject to Sharon's children. (Sharon has no interest in talking about her children; they've just become teenagers.)

These tiny people, they're not about you. They are not for you. They do not belong to you. They are under your care, is all, and it's your job to work at being a decent human being, love them well and a lot, dont put your problems on them, dont make your problems thier problems, dont use them to occupy empty parts of yourself.