Quotes About Children

we have entered a third and even more momentous era, a life-science revolution. Children who study digital coding will be joined by those who study genetic code.

He had an imagination so excitable that it flirted with the edges of fantasy, which is also something we can try to preserve in ourselves and indulge in our children.

The evolutionary process cares little about what happens to us after we have children and get them to a safe age, so there are a whole bunch of middle-aged maladies, including Huntington's and most forms of cancer, that we humans would want to eliminate, even though nature sees no need to.

One moral issue that continues to loom large for her is inequality, especially if the wealthy are able to buy genetic enhancements for their children. "We could create a gene gap that would get wider with each new generation," she says. "If you think we face inequalities now, imagine what it would be like if society became genetically tiered along economic lines and we transcribed our financial inequality into our genetic code.

To distress is to weaken, and weakening the children weakens the whole family.

One odd result of allowing super-enhancements could be that children will become like iPhones: a new version will come out every few years with better features and apps. Will children as they age feel that they are becoming obsolete? That their eyes don't have the cool triple-lens enhancements that are engineered into the latest version of kids? Fortunately, these are questions we can ask for amusement but not for an answer.

Chirren is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.

Maybe that's what they're afraid of. Maybe they don't want these children to make up their own minds. Maybe if they did that, the world would change.

Everybody was screaming for joy. That's what children do - they scream because life is just too much for them but they don't know it yet.

Daddy!" she cried. "Are you okay?" There are ten thousand perfectly good reasons not to have children but hearing the love in Feather's voice trumped every one.

There are ten thousand perfectly good reasons not to have children but hearing the love in Feather's voice trumped every one.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

I know what moves you're preparing to make. I've fought our fight already, in my head, in a million different ways. I can hit you without you even seeing me.... I'm what soldiers dream of growing into. I'm what children see when they first imagine what death is like. I'm The Midnighter.

Children living with their dad felt positively about their mom; children living with their mom were more likely to think negatively of their dad.

If children live in separate homes, proximity to the other parent has been found to be the single most important factor determining a child's likelihood of success.

This is a fact. But Satan does not attack just prayer; he also attacks the praise of God's children. The ultimate goal of Satan is to stop all praises to God. Prayer is a warfare, but praise is a victory. Prayer signifies spiritual warfare, but praise signifies spiritual victory. Whenever we praise, Satan flees. Therefore, Satan hates our praising the most. He will use all his strength to stop our praising.

I think Khalil Gibran stated it perfectly in The Prophet: "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You can have all visits back home be fond experiences, if you get a firm handle on your own struggle for independence from your parents. And if you model self-pride and self-worth for your children, they will in turn leave the nest with an absence of stress and turmoil for all concerned.

See that you don't look down on one of these little ones, because I tell you that in heaven their angels continually view the face of My Father in heaven" (Matthew 18:10).

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you . . .

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.*

commune with nature, play with your children, read, see a movie, or just do nothing.

Teach your kids, and any children you can, to sanctify life.

When will we [teach our children] what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your cunning fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel?