Quotes About Children

todos los ojos de todos los niños de todas las guerras eran una larga recriminación sin palabras al mundo de los adultos.

Traer hijos a este mundo injusto, de esclavos, es sumar a todo una injusticia más.

Films are for everyone, collective, generous, with children cheering when the cavalry arrives. And they're even better on TV: two can watch and comment. But your books are selfish. Solitary. Some of them can't even be read, they fall to bits if you open them. A person who's interested only in books doesn't need other people, and that frightens me

I've walked a long trail, a long trail of years flushed with tears. Tears of remembrance. Years of driven labor have not driven the ancestral thoughts out of me. My memory of teaching— surrounded by children, singing songs of our people, the stories of our history— lives always with me... Song shields our hearts from abuse, draws us together, strengthens our lives.

I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.

First, parents are not intermediaries between God and children. Secondly, all children are to come to God's truth as individual moral agents independent of, and if necessary, even in conflict with the views of their parents. Finally, even if children are expected to disobey erring parents, they are simultaneously reminded to care for and be fair to them.

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

Enseñe a sus hijos a hacer del escenario de su mente un teatro de alegría, y no un escenario de terror.

que as crianças mais precisam não é de roupa de grife, grandes presentes, Internet, mas de alegria, simplicidade, brincadeiras ao ar livre e do carinho e dedicação dos pais. Os pais que dão o mundo para elas, mas não dão a si mesmos e não as ensinam a pensar, geram crianças frágeis, dependentes e despreparadas para enfrentar os desafios dos labirintos.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.

Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.

The good times, when the rains came and made everything green, when streams of water suddenly raced through the dried riverbeds and there was milk and meat in abundance. She tried to teach us how that led to decadence: how when the grass grows green, herders become lazy and children grow fat.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

So many women today have become so focused on their children, they've developed these romantic entanglements with their children's lives, and the husbands are secondary. They're left out. And the romantic focus is on the children.

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath ' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to 'The Simpsons.'

Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.

Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.

The single defining characteristic of iconic Good Motherhood is self-abnegation. Her children's needs come first; their health and happiness are her primary concern. They occupy all her thoughts, her day is constructed around them, and anything and everything she does is for their sakes.

My God, she thought. You scare them when you do that. You're scaring them. We scare all our children to death before they know what fear is, and they think we're playing games with them. We grab at them and yell, I gotcha. And they repay us with shrieks of laughter, and we never consider that it is hysteria. She realized she was praying an insane litany. Please don't let anyone say, I gotcha. Please, God, don't let anyone say, Peekaboo.