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Quotes About Children

Lauren Tarshis
~ rest in peace
Lauren Tarshis
~ played ball
The Children's Blizzard. Because at least one hundred of the people who died were schoolchildren
~ Lauren Tarshis
Because at least one hundred of the people who died were schoolchildren.
~ Lauren Tarshis
For example, a myth faithfully told (and not watered down for children or to be socially acceptable) carries more powerful spiritual energy than a scholarly discourse about the myth.
~ Laurence Galian
Abortion too, is a form of human sacrifice (depopulation) on a huge scale, just as in the distant past babies were sacrificed to the god Moloch. Bert Hellinger warns us in the extreme about the consequences of abortion on a family and the consequences on the other living children of that family.
~ Laurence Galian
Crowley did not sacrifice children. Crowley always used analogies for things, so he called masturbation 'child sacrifice.' In his book, Magick, Aleister Crowley referred to masturbation jokingly and dysphemistically as child sacrifice.
~ Laurence Galian
For example, when children do not get the connection they need, they grow up both seeking and fearing connection. When children do not get their needs met, they do not learn to recognize what they need, are unable to express their needs, and often feel undeserving of having their needs met.
~ Laurence Heller
Children become triangulated with warring parents. Within the family system the children are used as pawns in the struggle between the mother and father, and in divorce the children are often forced to take sides. By having to choose between one parent or the other, they are forced into a situation where they are asked to betray one part of their heart or the other.
~ Laurence Heller
Children are pushed to give up their dependency needs and assume responsibility too early. This is particularly common in alcoholic and dysfunctional families.
~ Laurence Heller
From 9 months on, either spouse can buy the farm and the other will be eligible for survivor benefits, as well as mother or father benefits if there are children, and the children themselves—whether premarital, newborn, adopted, or from previous relationships—will be eligible for child survivor benefits.
~ Laurence J. Kotlikoff
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.
~ Laurens van der Post
The children had never been to a museum before. "Will it be like school?" they wanted to know. "Will it be like church? Or like shopping or going to a picnic?" "A little of all those things," said Celeste. "This museum is a building filled with works of art.
~ Laurent de Brunhoff
Christian children all must be mild, obedient, good as He.
~ Cecil Frances Alexander
Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.
~ Cecil Frances Alexander
There is a long history, in the U.S. and elsewhere, of removing children as a means of political control.
~ Celeste Ng
PACT protects innocent children from being indoctrinated with false, subversive, un-American ideas by unfit and unpatriotic parents. He taps the paper.
~ Celeste Ng
Evidence of his mother, out there, elsewhere, so worried about somebody else's children though she'd left her own behind. The irony of it leached into his veins.
~ Celeste Ng
And finally, most crucially: preventing the spread of un-American views by quietly removing children from un-American environments—the definition of which was ever expanding:
~ Celeste Ng
My mom says kids only need one parent. She says if my dad doesn't care enough to see me, it's his loss, not mine.
~ Celeste Ng
Laura Briggs's Taking Children: A History of American Terror gives an invaluable overview.
~ Celeste Ng
There was a long history of children taken, the pretexts different but the reasons the same.
~ Celeste Ng
The Three Pillars of PACT. Outlaws promotion of un-American values and behavior. Requires all citizens to report potential threats to our society. And there, beneath Sadie's finger: Protects children from environments espousing harmful views.
~ Celeste Ng
remembered then that Lexie, thank god, had stayed over at Serena Wong's house last night. She wondered where Izzy had gotten to. She wondered where her sons were, and how she would find them to tell them what had happened.
~ Celeste Ng