Quotes on Children

Children do not constitute anyone's property: _x000D_ _x000D_ they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. _x000D_ _x000D_ They belong only to their own future freedom.

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?

There is no trust more sacred than the_x000D_ _x000D_ one the world holds with children.

We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.

No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or undermine families as they cope with moral, social and economic stresses of caring for children.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

Your children are not your children, they come through you, but they are life itself, wanting to express itself.

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.