Quotes About Children

Ah, my dear. Sometimes God takes the most precious children to his own.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer them keeping in mind that you are writing your children's future with your answers.

Now, what's this all about?" she demanded. "They started it, Mom," said Caroline, wringing out the tail of her shirt. "We did not!" said Jake hotly. Eddie turned the hose on Josh." "He dropped his bucket on purpose!" cried Beth. "I did not!" said Josh. Mrs. Malloy looked around curiously. "You kids hardly know each other! How did you get to be enemies so soon?" Wally looked at Caroline. I dare you, his eyes told her.

You know, Jean, maybe it's a good thing we had all girls. If those Hatford boys belonged to us, we'd be in a mental ward.

They'll have to come back home in their PJs! Beth cried happily. What if they don't wear pajamas? Caroline asked. Then they'll have to come home in their underwear, said Eddie. What if they don't sleep in their underwear? Caroline asked mischievously. Then they'll have to walk home stark naked! said Eddie, and the girls whooped.

To Wally there was nothing worse than being in a play with Caroline Malloy. Never mind that he would be doing something special for the younger students. He did not want to make primary children happy.

The best thing we can do for our adult children is to get into recovery for ourselves and set them free to find their own way to recovery.

What earth will we leave to our children, and what children will we leave to our earth.

Quelle planète laisserons-nous à nos enfants, et quels enfants laisserons-nous à la planète. What earth will we leave to our children, and what children will we leave to earth.

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.

not exact, but: the two most important questions are; who will teach the children? what they teach them?

make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force.

But far more dangerous are the others, who began when you were children, and took possession of your minds with their falsehoods

Education, I said, and nurture: If our citizens are well educated, and grow into sensible men, they will easily see their way through all these, as well as other matters which I omit; such, for example, as marriage, the possession of women and the procreation of children, which will all follow the general principle that friends have all things in common, as the proverb says. That

There is no sameness of existence, but the new mortality is always taking the place of the old. This is the reason why parents love their children—for the sake of immortality; and this is why men love the immortality of fame. For the creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom and virtue, such as poets and other creators have invented.

Some people are born to get married, have children and live happily ever after, and others to became philosophers.

Hemos de permitir, pues, tan ligeramente que los niños escuchen cualesquiera mitos, forjados por el primero que llegue, y que den cabida en su espíritu a ideas generalmente opuestas a las que creemos necesario que tengan inculcadas al llegar a mayores? -No debemos permitirlo en modo alguno.

educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they'd be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression.

In one study, Cummings found that children's emotional well-being and security are more affected by the relationship between the parents than by the direct relationship between the parent and child.

siblings between the ages of three and seven clash 3.5 times per hour, on average. Some of those are brief clashes, others longer, but it adds up to ten minutes of every hour spent arguing.

You and I are the mechanisms God has put in place to keep today's corrupting systems of thought from taking root and then taking effect in the hearts of our children.

Power does not make safe. History murders the children of weak rulers.

a strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable.