Quotes About Children

Books ... rarely, if ever, talk about what children can make of themselves, about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay, When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas day.

My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears and hear their cries!

Parenting, at its best, comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic, involuntary, unconditional love.

Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent, two, or no children at all.

Little pitchers have wide ears.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

What its children become, that will the community become.

I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together, they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.

When their children flourish, almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.

To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need - protection and love.

The legend of a cable company trying to break the Internet makes scary bedtime stories for children of telecom geeks, but it is not reality.

Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn't go up, it went down.

I'm very active with my kids, so even if I don't go to the gym, I'm lifting them in and out of the tub and out of their high chairs.

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

More than two decades after the birth of Louise Brown, and all the hysteria that surrounded her 'test tube' conception, we should know that institutions, not technologies, create dystopias. Artificially conceived children are everywhere, beloved by their parents, and they haven't radically altered our world.