Quotes About Children

We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class children who go to good schools and grow up to be professionals', for children manage to use up all the capital that is made available for the purpose, whatever proportion it may be of the family's whole income, just as housework expands to fill the time available.

We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.

He who teaches children learns more than they do.

The realisation that there is no right on the part of the woman to a child, but only the right of the child to a mother, corresponds to the acceptance of another fact that becomes evident for women today, namely, that there is in the world no woman's right, so called, to a profession or vocation; but the world has a child's right to the woman.

One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from.

The island children did not look at the Aldens. In fact, they looked the other way.

Just as she said this, the children heard a horse and cart coming up the road.

Then the children could hear a man talking. It was the baker!

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.

In this city [Palermo] . . . it's the souls of the dead who bring presents to the children. . . . We go to the cemetery to ask the dead for toys.

Quanto pesa una lacrima?» «Secondo: la lacrima di un bambino capriccioso pesa meno del vento, quella di un bambino affamato pesa più di tutta la terra.»

Cómo se permite usted, más bien, sostener aún que existen niños malos? Póngase de rodillas y pida perdón.

Se gli compro una cometa il mio bambino chissà cosa combina.» E il mago: «Ma fatevi coraggio! I vostri bambini andranno sulle stelle, cominciate ad abituarli da piccoli.»

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

But our children are never ours. We belong to them, but they belong to themselves. They belong to people not yet born.

I was a mother, whereas he would have been a father, and whether those two labels SHOULD mean the same thing - to the culture, to the parent in question, to the children themselves - in practice they usually do not.

I dare try on the idea that maybe, just maybe, my children will love me through my imperfections just as I have loved my father through his—that I don't need to be perfect or even better to be worthy of our bond.

GOd let women bear children so women would never give up hope. Even if here on earth women were denied everything else, God would always let them bear children. Children were a promise brighter than the rainbow.

But don't make the mistake that so many parents make and allow your desire for changed behavior to replace your desire for a changed heart. If you can reach the heart, the behavior will take care of itself. Keep in mind that it is possible to cause your child to change his irritating behavior to that which is acceptable without an actual heart change taking place.

God's Word is profitable and beneficial for all ages. God's Word never changes. It is only the way that sin manifests itself that changes as children get older. Selfishness, discontentment, disobedience, and other sins may manifest themselves differently with older children, but God's Word is always the same. Therefore it should always be the Word of God that we use for training them in the ways of the Lord. In

When I came to my senses, I realized that we cry for ourselves because we are ignorant of what is true. We are ignorant of the goodness of God. Too often we are prone to believe the Hell that is preached in the Bible, when we should believe the love the Father has for each of his children.