Quotes About Children

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

The global environmental crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

Remember: children in the back seat cause accidents, but accidents in the back seat cause children. Hey, what's the difference between a G spot and a golf ball? A guy will actually look for a golf ball. Why did the chicken cross the basketball court? He heard the ref was blowing fowls.

Parenting stress, the range of pressures and worries that comes with the role of being a parent, is often significantly influenced by your own expectations, beliefs, and sense of your duties as a parent, and by your child's reactions to them.

a child hears the question as a question, not as something he needs to do. Also, don't just say, It's time for bed. That's not as definite a directive as parents think it is. Be absolutely clear, explicit, and direct: Please go to your room and put your pajamas on and get in your bed. Clarity is not only good for your child, it's also good for you and your family.

I felt responsible to use my gifts, but in future churches, that pointed in the direction of children's or music ministry. But, like many women in the church whom I knew, I felt neither a call nor a predisposition to children or song.

Despite our daily observations to the contrary, I assure you that children are, by nature, spiritual beings, until we destroy through our example. In my own field of language I remember, and still can see, there being no problem here. A child knows, whether it be in the traditional structure of a fairy tale, or the special use of an archaism, when Mystery is engaged.

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

There...is your spiritual obligation to literature: root out the reductive; seek excellence; pursue the numinous. And, along with a disciplined intellect (for one is of no use without the other) give to children their imaginations, of which they are being robbed with totalitarian intensity by the trash around them.

For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

I suggested we name one of the children Silence," said Dion, "a greatly underrated virtue.

I think people have this mistaken notion that if you have a couple of kids, it's not quite as terrible losing one of them because you still have the others. But love is unique, just as loss is.

Most kids grow up wanting to work with animals. There's a good reason for that. The alternative is to work with humans.

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

And you have no idea what a creep he really is. I know what he wants to do to you. They've come up with this medicine now. It slows down biological growth, allows adults to stop their children from ever growing up." "Why would anyone want that?" She looked back at me with an exasperated expression. "You're so naïve, Fura.

While there were still children in the universe, and while children could still be enchanted by something as simple and wonderful as a flower, there was still a reason to keep looking, a reason to keep believing.

I feel that kids are smart, and I feel that kids will understand things even if they don't understand them from personal experience.

It's obvious that getting married and having children is a matter of personal freedom.

A lot of time, mothers put their kids first, their selves aside, and then there's some moms who are like, 'Look, I'm going to try and balance it all out and still have my personal life.'

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

I have two little kids, and they both came out completely different, with their own personalities.

It's hysterical how kids have their own personalities, even at like 3 or 4. And, it's funny what they tend to like.