Children Quotations
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- Nothing matters more to a child than a place to call home.
- Brenda Donald, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Resources, "Brenda Donald: Mission possible for Maryland: 1,000 new foster parents by 2010", Examiner.com (5 February 2008)
- Sometimes, you have to take a risk to give your kids what you want to give them.
- Noel Edmonds, from the gameshow, Deal or no Deal, (5 November 2008)
- In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
- George Eliot, Silas Marner (Chapter 14, 1861)
- Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea...Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
- Jesus Christ, Matthew 18:3-20 (KJV)
- The children wear military uniforms and become used to handling the anti-aircraft artillery flak guns. Fifteen and sixteen-year-old children as warriors! If the war still continues to last for a long time, perhaps the babies will also be employed. Total war!!
- Friedrich Kellner, My Opposition, 1943.
- All I know is Nanhoï's love. My son is my life. I believe in the magic of this love. He is the embodiment of life to me. The embodiment of beauty. Through him I'll find redemption and salvation. Then the wound in my soul - the wound I thought would never scar over - will stop bleeding.
- Klaus Kinski, in Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996), p. 316
- Children should be obscene, and not heard.
- Reverend Loveshade as quoted in Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht edited by Reverend Loveshade
- Children hallow small things. A child is a priest of the ordinary, fulfilling a sacred office that absolutely no one else can fill. The simplest gesture, the ephemeral movement, the commonest object all become precious beyond words when touched, noticed, lived by one's own dear child.
- Mike Mason, The Mystery of Children (Colorado Springs: Waterbrook Press, 2001), p. 27
- Children have rights that adults do not have, and these rights come before the rights of adults.
- Janne Haaland Matlary, quoted in "Professor Puts Kids' Rights First", Zenit (23 March 2007)
- With the birth of each child you lose two novels.
- Candia McWilliam, as quoted in The Guardian (5 May 1993)
- The welfare of a child is not to be measured by money only, nor by physical comfort only.
- Lindley, L.J., In re McGrath (Infants), L. R. 1 C. D. (1893), p. 148; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 188.
- Look around you. Everywhere. They are there. In every home - lurking in dark corners ... small, bi-pedal entities with almost human brains play their games in which adults are the pawns. They play and wait for the time when they will take over the world!
- John Blair Moore, Invaders from Home, Piranha Press, 1990, Book 1 of 6.
- But she didn't laugh. "When you have children," she said, staring at her glass, "you accept life. Do you accept life?"
- Cesare Pavese, Among women only
- Children are the keys of Paradise … They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives, are prayer.
- Richard Henry Stoddard, in Songs of Summer (1856), p. 113
- The fear that seeing naked people in some way harms children is not supported, however, by academic research. The small handful of studies on this topic in psychology and sociology have shown, instead, that children reared in an atmosphere containing family social nudity may benefit from the practice. If this is true, then proposed laws outlawing either social nudity in the home or children's participation at naturist (or nudist) settings are unjustified.
- Mark Storey in Children, Social Nudity and Scholarly Study
- Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) Emotions
- Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore, in Stray Birds (1916)
- Paraphrased variants:
- Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of humanity
- The birth of a child, is God's way of saying, life must go on.
- I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?
- Sharon Tate as quoted in Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders (2000) by Greg King
- You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for — if you are honest — you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
- P. L. Travers, as quoted in Sticks and Stones : The Troublesome Success of Children's Literature from Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter (2002) by Jack Zipes
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
- Train them to virtue; habituate them to industry, activity, and spirit. Make them consider every vice as shameful and unmanly. Fire them with ambition to be useful. Make them disdain to be destitute of any useful knowledge. Fix their ambition upon great and solid objects, and their contempt upon little, frivolous, and useless ones.
- John Adams, p. 50.
- Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.
- Theodore L. Cuyler, p. 50.
- Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf.
- Theodore L. Cuyler, p. 50.
- Jesus was the first great teacher of men who showed a genuine sympathy for childhood. When He said "Of such is the kingdom of heaven," it was a revelation.
- Edward Eggleston, p. 49.
- As in the Master's spirit you take into your arms the little ones, His own everlasting arms will encircle them and you. He will pity both their and your simplicity; and as in unseen presence He comes again, His blessing will breathe upon you.
- James Hamilton, p. 50.
- Bring your little children to the Saviour. Place them in His arms. Devote them to His service. Born in His camp, let them wear from the first His colors. Taking advantage of timely opportunities, and with all tenderness of spirit, seek to endear them to the Friend of Sinners, the Good Shepherd of the lambs, the loving Guardian of the little children. And not only teach them, but govern them. And in order to govern them, govern yourselves.
- James Hamilton, p. 50.
- Children have more need of models than of critics.
- Joseph Joubert, p. 49.
- Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
- Joseph Joubert, p. 51.
- Johnny is but gone an hour or two sooner to bed as children are wont to do, and we are undressing to follow. And the more we put off the love of this present world, and all things superfluous beforehand, we shall have the less to do when we lie down.
- Robert Leighton, p. 51.
- God has given you your child, that the sight of him, from time to time, might remind you of His goodness, and induce you to praise Him with filial reverence.
- Christian Scriver, p. 50.
- We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?
- Lydia Sigourney, p. 51.
- The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.
- Lydia Sigourney, p. 53.
- We are but children, the things that we do
Are as sports of a babe to the Infinite view,
That sees all our weakness, and pities it too.
And oh! when aweary, may we be so blest
As to sink, like an innocent child, to our rest,
And feel ourselves clasped to the Infinite breast.
- F. Burge Smith, p. 51.
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- A child is that which tells in the street what his parents say at home.
- A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.
- Olive Schreiner
- Children should be seen and not heard - Unknown
- Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth, (1884-1980)
- I don't dislike children, I just don't particularly want to be around with them a lot. Problem is, neither do their parents. ~ Bill Maher
- If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
- If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
- Abigail Van Buren
- In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.
- Lisa T. Shepherd
- Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
- People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
- Leo J. Burke
- Sunt pueri pueri et pueri puerilia tractant.
- Children are children and children do childish things
- Unknown
- The best inheritance a person can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
- O.A. Battista
- The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
- The greatest prejudice that exists in the modern world, the only one almost universally accepted, is the prejudice against children.
- Alden Loveshade
- The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
- King Edward VIII
- There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it
- Astrid Lindgren
- There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass.
- Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
- Roger Lewin
- You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.
- Children are expensive to raise. If you can't afford one, take an aspirin...and hold it between your knees.
- Insanity is hereditary; you can get it from your children.
- Sam Levenson
- If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
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