Quotes on Children

One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.

Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin.

In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.

It's not a nice-to-have - it's a must-have. It's time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women's issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.

Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children.

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

The sense that thousands and millions of children and young people are being sexually violated and that there’s this huge silence about it around me angers me.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Write it down and remember that we never gave in, the mind of a child is where the revolution begins, so if the solution has never been to look in yourself, how is it that you expect to find it anywhere else

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

If we value our children, we must cherish their parents

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste.

But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.

The carbon emissions from tar shale and tar sands would initiate a continual unfolding of climate disasters over the course of this century. We would be miserable stewards of creation. We would rob our own children and grandchildren.

A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.