Quotes About Children

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men are endowed by their Creator.'

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

I do see myself settling down, getting married and having kids. But when I think about a family life in the future there's rarely a man involved which is kind of weird.

Kids need to get answers from humans who love them.

But Henry wasn't a parent, and he didn't understand that when you were, almost nothing was more satisfying than seeing your kid sleep.

The tragedy—and the entire point—of being a parent was the moment when the story stopped being about you.

Most of their children had reached the age when they were no longer naturally endearing to anyone save their own parents; the size when their energy was more a menace than a wonder; and the level of intelligence when what would have been called innocence in a smaller child was infuriating rudeness. A honeybee cruising for nectar is pretty despite its implicit threat, but the same behavior in a hornet three times larger makes one glance about for some handy swatting material.

My son, in the eyes of Heaven, we are all as little children. No one of us is more important than another. In fact, the more important we think we are, the less we stand out in the eyes of the Lord.

Men sailed jachts across the sea and gave them to her, just to get her attention. And so perhaps her fires had been banked by choice; she'd had the sound judgment to know when to draw back, and let her investments and her children grow, and her plans come to fruition. Daniel

parents of small children must perforce have an entirely different sense of irony than unimpaired humankind.

He strove to integrate us," said Eve, "but he, or we, failed. We are ineluctably children of the Beta Gods.

Of course, happy is a concept for fat Americans. Immigrants don't seem to care about happy very much. Healthy, wealthy and wise, yes, but happiness alone is something their children worry about, maybe.