Quotes About Children

Pettureilla ei pitäisi olla perhettä, sillä lapset muistavat aina - tai saavat tietää.

How many little kids were being orphaned or killed, right that minute, while I was sitting there watching TV?

I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.

a standing ovation from five-year-olds is not to be sniffed at.

Sort of like using the Jabberwock to frighten children, yes?" "Well, not really," replied Deane thoughtfully, "because there is a Jabberwock. Frightfully nice fellow—good at fly-fishing and plays the bongos. I'll introduce you sometime.

Every change that God promises is possible. Every quality that God requires in His redeemed children can be attained. Every resource that is needed God has supplied.

The intercom buzzes while you're changing your shirt. You push the Talk button: Who is it? Narcotics squad. We're soliciting donations for children all over the world who have no drugs.

The universe is mystagogic. It talks without knowing it, and without anything meaningful in its speech. Pedagogues speak in full knowledge of what they are saying, but they treat us like children.

Realizing the emptiness of a spirituality -- and of a spiritual nurture -- that remains in the clouds need not bring us or our children to a dead end. It is a turning point. Now we can begin to deepen our awareness of the genuine spirituality of life's humblest moments.

I know it's supposed to take a village to raise our children, but why does ours have so many village idiots?

Can s?k?c? bir budalal??? betimlemem gerekseydi, çocuklar?na din dersi veren bir bilgiçi betimlerdim. Bir çocuÄŸu deli yapmak isteseydim, onu öÄŸrendiÄŸi din bilgisini ezbere yineleyip anlat?rken, söylediklerini aç?klamak zorunda b?rak?rd?m.

Children are always a joy, but pain, too. And they all must lead their own lives. Even Mut will let Her children go their own way, someday, but I fear for us if we ever neglect Her. If we forget to respect our Great Earth Mother, She will withhold Her blessings, and no longer provide for us.

I think we all have an obligation to teach children whatever we can

Children read their favorite books to death, she said. They are careless in their devotions. They rip the pages, scribble, and spill things on them. And they are demon book thieves.

Of course he won my heart. Many children did. I often thought that I should have liked children of my own if it were not for the undignified manner of getting them.

Unhappily children do hurt flies

We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. Our children frighten us in their intimacy, but we make sure they grow up like us. Lukewarm like us. On a night like this, hands and faces hot, we can believe that tomorrow will show us angels in jars and that the well-known woods will suddenly reveal another path.

I did upset the children. Not intentionally, but effectively.

I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

Why doesn't every mother believer her child can change the world? The child can. This is the joke. Here we are still looking for a saviour and hundreds are being born every second. Look at it, this tiny capsule of new life, indifferent to your prejudices, your miseries, unmindful of the world already made. Make it again? They could if we let them, but we make sure they grow up just like us, fearful like us. Don't let them know the potential that they are.

I made him walk on a lead and he jumped for joy, the way creatures do, and children do and adults don't do, and spend their lives wondering where the leap went.

You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

Sé que hay que ocupar a los niños en algo y que la ociosidad es para ellos el peligro más temible. ¿

Si algún progreso he hecho en el conocimiento del corazón humano, fue el placer que tenía en ver y observar a los niños lo que me valió tal conocimiento.