Quotes About Children

Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.

See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life and I think most people feel that way.

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

The welfare and the future of our societies depend on our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health of every mother and child.

Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.

If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.

When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children.

The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.

Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.