Quotes on Children

Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."

My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman's sense of self, a young man's sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles?

Age merely shows what children we remain.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.