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Quotes About Children

I never really grew up until I had kids.
~ Stefan Molyneux
Character and education are the wings you can give your children and they will fly to places where ordinary people cannot go
~ JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA
There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see this crap movie.
~ Pierce Brosnan
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
~ Peggy Noonan
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
~ Mario Puzo
Love for children is the enormous untapped power that can wake us up to the profound changes we need to make if we're to have a future worth living.
~ Raffi
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
~ Benjamin Spock
As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you.You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.
~ David L. Beck
Fear of death and the desire to live on, somehow, if only through our children. Or our grandchildren. Quixotic quest for immortality. It's sad and heroic and doomed - all at the same time.
~ Will Ferguson
the longer we wait to start a conversation around doing school "differently," instead of simply "better," the more we're putting our kids at risk.
~ Will Richardson
I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
~ Will Smith
To live in idleness, even if you have the means, is not only injurious to yourself, but a species of fraud upon the community, and the children—if
~ William A. Alcott
When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.
~ William Blake
I think having children makes one think in spiritual terms. I may not have a soul, but I'm certain Gloria has one. I only have to look into her eyes, and I see it moving about.
~ William Browning Spencer
No man has ever lived that had enoughOf children's gratitude or woman's love.
~ William Butler Yeats
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.
~ William Cobbett
Children of heroes have glory for breakfast.
~ William Edgar Stafford
Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
~ William Faulkner
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
~ William Feather
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
~ William Feather
Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.
~ William Galvin
They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his unsearchable wisdom.
~ William Gouge
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
~ William H. Borah
To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.
~ William Hague