Quotes About Children

A child with a full love tank can respond to parental guidance without resentment.

One of the most important things you can do for your children is to love and serve your spouse. Nothing creates a more secure environment for children than seeing Mom and Dad loving each other. And nothing else cements your marriage relationship quite so well.

Father, thank you for putting such a high priority on families. Help me to keep that priority in my own life and to realize how my actions toward my spouse will affect my children for years to come.

See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! —1 John 3:1

Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth."2

Many children go to school ill-prepared to learn because they are not emotionally ready to learn. Children need to reach appropriate emotional levels of maturity before they are able to learn effectively at their age level. Simply sending a child to a better school or changing teachers is not the answer. We must make sure our children are emotionally ready to learn. (See

The supreme law is the law of love, and it is loving, positive guidance that our children so desperately need.

Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty 'love tank.

The best way we can make sure kids will grow up to be considerate adults is to demonstrate love for others while they're still small. — Jim D. Ferguson —

Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God. —Ephesians 5:1–2

Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children." —Matthew 19:14

God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God. —Matthew 5:9

We need to fill our children's emotional tanks with unconditional love, because real love is always unconditional. Unconditional love is a full love that accepts and affirms a child for who he is, not for what he does.

If our children and others don't learn the love of the Lord from us, where will they learn it? — Mimi Greenwood Knight —

It is the mistaken idea that if I reward mediocrity, I will curtail the person's aspirations to be better. That is a commonly held myth that keeps some parents from verbally affirming children. Of course, it's untrue.

The best way to love your children is to love their mother [father]." That's true. The quality of your marriage greatly affects the way you relate to your children—and the way they receive love. If your marriage is healthy—both partners treating each other with kindness, respect, and integrity—you and your spouse will feel and act as partners in parenting.

But there's something really nice about spending time with a little kid. You learn so much.

The goal of politics is to make us children. The more heinous the system the more this is true. The Soviet system worked best when its adults—its men, in particular—were welcomed to stay at the emotional level of not-particularly-advanced teenagers.

My mother is changing history. She is making her balalaika-smashing mother into a heroine. Does she want me to do the same for her? Is that what good children do for their parents? What about good writers?

The shadow had followed behind them, clinging to their steps; and the two children little suspected its presence when they at last sat down, trustingly, under the mighty protection of Apollo, who, with a great bronze gesture, lifted his huge lyre to the heart of a crimson sky.

Come, children, pull yourselves together! I dare say no one has ever seen the ghost." "Yes, yes, we saw him—we saw him just now!" cried the girls. "He had his death's head and his dress-coat, just as when he appeared to Joseph Buquet!" "And Gabriel saw him too!" said Jammes. "Only yesterday! Yesterday afternoon—in broad day-light——

I found out that Willy Wonka had failed at the box office. It seems strange now to think that Roald Dahl's morality story wasn't embraced. I was told that many mothers thought the lessons in the movie were too cruel for children to understand. As the years since have proven, children don't have any trouble understanding the movie—they crave to know what the boundaries are. It was the mothers who had a little difficulty.

You Fathers and you Mothers, let me add, However many children you have had, Yours is the duty of their supervision As long as they are bound by your decision. Beware lest the example you present Or your neglect in giving chastisement Cause them to perish; otherwise I fear, If they should do so, you will pay it dear.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.