Quotes About Children

As she put it, she knew of nothing so ravishing as having a child whom she could whip whenever she was in a bad mood. (The Queen Fantasque)

Un acto de esta naturaleza es ilegítimo y nulo por el sólo motivo de que el que lo hace no está en su cabal sentido. Decir lo mismo de todo un pueblo, es suponer un pueblo de locos y la locura no constituye derecho. Aun cuando el hombre pudiese enajenarse a sí mismo, no puede enajenar a sus hijos.

There is quite another class of exceptions: those so gifted by nature that they rise above the level of their age. As there are men who never get beyond infancy, so there are others who are never, so to speak, children, they are men almost from birth. The

Young teacher, pray consider this example, and remember that your lessons should always be in deeds rather than words, for children soon forget what they say or what is said to them, but not what they have done nor what has been done to them.

Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

There are also amateurs. These are secretaries, office workers, shopkeepers, people who listen to others in cafes: around forty they feel swollen, with an experience they can't get rid of. Luckily they've made children on whom they can pass it off. They would like to make us believe that their past is not lost, that their memories are condensed, gently transformed into Wisdom.

Everything is silent again: but it isn't the same silence. It's raining: tapping lightly against the frosted glass windows; if there are any more masked children in the street, the rain is going to spoil their cardboard masks.

And you, fathers and mothers, loving par-ents, lower your eyes humbly. They are there, your dead children, stretching their frail arms towards you, and all the happiness you denied them, all the tortures you inflicted, weigh like lead on their sad, childish, unforgiving hearts.

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.

Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

My parents really raised me with the value that it's important to give back, and I've always gravitated towards non-profits and charities that work with children.

The Art of Elysium is a program I've volunteered with for close to ten years, and I work with Unicef and Young Storytellers. My passion is really working with children since they are the future.

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.

I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can, reveling in the language of other times and putting it forth for the world.

Mothers are the heart and soul of every life they touch. In them lies the beauty, depth and grandeur of life. Cherish the Children is an inspirational expression of the importance of a Mother's work.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

Some men are self-made, but most are the revised work of a wife and children.