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Quotes About Children

Era il suono di mille bambini affamati che piangevano, di diecimila vedove che si strappavano i capelli sulle tombe dei mariti, un coro di angeli che intonava l'ultimo lamento nel giorno della morte di dio
~ Christopher Moore
There are those who, deprived of physical beauty, develop a sincerity and beauty of spirit that seems to eclipse their appearance. They marry for love, stay married, and raise happy children who are quick to laugh and slow to judge.
~ Christopher Moore
Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.
~ Christopher Moore
Josh se alejó despacio, más o menos en dirección a aquella montaña. El monte Tabor, creo que era. La señora Zebedeo se puso a perseguir a sus hijos como quien persigue pollos
~ Christopher Moore
Parenting is important in the development of a child's moral reasoning. Most specifically, parental stage of justice reasoning, the use of induction, democratic family decision-making processes, and authoritative parenting style are related to higher stages of children's justice reasoning development.
~ Christopher Peterson
You don't ever hear anyone talking about childing, do you?" "There should be a word like childing," says Lauren. "Children give birth to parents. There wouldn't be parents without children. Not only that, children raise parents. My mom and dad all the time tell me how they learn important lessons in life from me. They
~ Christopher Phillips
The calmer you can keep children, the better they'll be at sleeping
~ Tracy Hogg
Because parents tend to allow more TV-watching and computer games in the third year, it's not surprising that nightmares go with the territory.
~ Tracy Hogg
John studied the holographic locket. Laszlo, the older boy, looked to be about twelve. His brother, Vidor, was ten, if that. It seemed the days of shaping children into soldiers had not yet passed on Reach. Maybe they never would.
~ Troy Denning
Madmen and children always speak the truth.
~ Umberto Eco
If the day ever comes that it (Deep Space Nine) isn't safe for kids to run around this station we all need to pack up and go home.
~ Una McCormack
Of late years, however, since his children were growing up, he had begun to value respectability, and had had himself made a magistrate; a position for which he was admirably fitted, because of his strong conservatism and his contempt for foreigners.
~ Upton Sinclair
Love of children--ah, yes, all scandal-bureaus know what that means!
~ Upton Sinclair
That was the sort of reassurance a French authoritarian would value, and when Lanny perceived that his bait was being taken he went on to sing the praises of America as the classic land of big business, where every worker had been persuaded that he was soon to become a capitalist, or that, at the least, his children would.
~ Upton Sinclair
Germany did really feed her children, and care for her aged, and build decent homes for the workers, all of which practices Beauty praised ardently—never dreaming that they had anything to do with the dreaded Socialism.
~ Upton Sinclair
A singular thing—he was a devout Catholic, went every morning to mass, and kneeled to a merciful redeemer who had said: "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not." Little French children, of course; no little German children!
~ Upton Sinclair
Milk has been a key growth factor, be it in Japan or in the Netherlands. Before the Second World War, Dutch males were smaller than American men, but post-1950 US milk consumption declined while in the Netherlands it rose until the 1960s—and it remains higher than in the US. The lesson is obvious: the easiest way to improve a child's chances of growing taller is for them to drink more milk.
~ Vaclav Smil
Some measurable effects appeared soon: as the lead phase-out proceeded, the median lead concentration in American children decreased by nearly 80 percent between 1976 and 1994, and by 2015 it was only about 5 percent of the mid-1970s level.
~ Vaclav Smil
We must intentionally help our children process the world through God's eyes.
~ Valerie E Hess
Tight corsets were accused of causing birth defects and weak, unhealthy children. It is difficult to interpret these historical accounts, however, since physical and moral injuries are often conflated. The mother becomes a scapegoat for anything bad that happens to her child
~ Valerie Steele
The actual memories of the trauma belong to adults; children who become reservoirs have no experience with the trauma. Actual memories belonging to one person cannot be transmitted to another person, but an adult can deposit traumatized images into a child's self.
~ Vam?k D. Volkan
There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never be overcome by evil – an evil that is itself eternal but will never succeed in overcoming good – whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed.
~ Vasily Grossman
I had been imagining what war was like - everything on fire, children crying, cats running about, and when we got to Stalingrad it really turned out to be like that, only more terrible.
~ Vasily Grossman
mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
~ Victor Hugo