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Quotes About Children

These bills include hundreds of thousands of economic migrants who, after years in the UK, probably still can't believe that British taxpayers are stupid enough to give them free housing, free education, free healthcare and £20,000 or £30,000 or even £40,000 a year for producing ever more children without ever having to do a day's work.
~ David Craig
By such means as the inculcating of parental instruction, the institution of classes for the children and young people of each congregation, the Church of Christ must seek to do the duty which she undertook when she received these little ones into the fold of the visible Church. She is not at liberty to make over her duty into the hands of parents, any more than parents are to throw over their responsibility on the Church. The
~ David Dickson
Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that's nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.
~ David Dinkins
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
~ David Friedman
Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee
~ David Frost
The generative love of God was our origin. The embracing love of God sustains our existence. The inextinguishable love of God is the only hope for our fulfillment. Love is our identity and our calling, for we are children of Love. Created from love, of love and for love, our existence makes no sense apart from Divine love.
~ David G. Benner
Residents of the squatter community of Christiana, Denmark, for example, have a Christmastide ritual where they dress in Santa suits, take toys from department stores and distribute them to children on the street, partly just so everyone can relish the images of the cops beating down Santa and snatching the toys back from crying children.
~ David Graeber
Bobby Kennedy said that when he had been a boy there were three major influences on children – the home, the church, and the school – and now there was a fourth – television.
~ David Halberstam
I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.
~ David Icke
This is the meaning of the covenant promise, "I will be the God of your children." The covenant promise does not mean, "I will be the God of your infant children some day, when they grow up, on the condition they believe or have a conversion experience." But the promise means: "I will be the God of your infant children, now, in their infancy, because of my own grace in Jesus Christ and, therefore, some day those who grow up will believe and be converted.
~ David J. Engelsma
And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken. 29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
~ David J. Ridges
I'VE OFTEN TOLD children the story of a man who stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God," he cried out, "Look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in Your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded: "I did send help. I sent you.
~ David J. Wolpe
How powerful is the influence of a mother! The bond between mother and child seems to be God-designed, the perfect union of potential and the power to make it spring forth. The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the potential of her children.
~ David Jeremiah
I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here. They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.
~ David Kahn
Animation had been a thriving medium when Walt came along, but was dismissed as amateur entertainment for children. Common were bland, forgettable, poorly drawn characters going through nonsensical antics. Walt himself could barely draw a decent Mickey Mouse.
~ David Koenig
The appeal was primal. "In Dungeons and Dragons," Gygax said, "the average person gets a call to glory and becomes a hero and undergoes change. In the real world, children, especially, have no power; they must answer to everyone, they don't direct their own lives, but in this game, they become super powerful and affect everything.
~ David Kushner
Can a machine, educated through a system of reward and punishment, be said to be able to think? Are children, when they cry or laugh, revealing some spark of soul that distinguishes them from machines, or simply following "rules of behavior" with which we as spectators empathize because we are familiar with them? Or to put it another way, does asking whether computers think require us to ask, as well, whether humans compute?
~ David Leavitt
Now that we can clone humans they've removed the one pleasurable thing about having a child.
~ David Letterman
What a villain you are, to boast of killing women and children of your own nation! What will God say when you appear before him?" "He will say," replied he, "that I was a very clever fellow.
~ David Livingstone
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
~ David Lodge
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round.
~ David Lodge
Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around
~ David Lodge
Given Fanon's subsequent traumatic encounter with the white gaze ('Look, maman, a negro'), it is ironic that it was he and Manville who gazed at the children and could not take their eyes off them. They had never seen a girl with truly red hair, or such a blond boy, and they were fascinated.
~ David Macey
Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.
~ William Tyndale