Children Quotes

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.

I would rather be trampled by thousands of children than touch a spider.

Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

Good teaching is forever being on the cutting edge of a child's competence.

I got the wild style, always been a foul child, My guns go boom-boom, and your guns go pow-pow.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

An error means a child needs help, not a reprimand or ridicule for doing something wrong.

I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.

I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza

Of the three sorts of knowledge proper to a child, the knowledge of God, of man, and of the universe,--the knowledge of God ranks first in importance, is indispensable, and most happy-making.

If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.

The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.

Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.

Working with UNICEF made me grow up and recognize how fortunate I am.

A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

What a child digs for becomes his own possession.

Kids today learn a lot about getting to the moon, but very little about getting to heaven.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

A tree is like a saint. It calls no one to itself, nor does it send anyone away. It offers to protect everyone who wants to come to it, whether this be a man, a woman, a child, or an animal.

Brock Lesnar is not here to put smiles on people's faces. Brock Lesnar is here to shock the WWE Universe and put TEARS in the EYES of CHILDREN!

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

The clothes make the man. The children working in sweatshops make the clothes. Therefore, the children working in sweatshops make the man.

Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

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

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This could be the first generation where the kids teach the parents.

Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.

Humanity owes the child the best it has to give.

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.