Children Quotes
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The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.
Victor Hugo
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[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.
D. H. Lawrence
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I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty and with the NSPCC and Save the Children. But I had worked for ten years with Oxfam.
Jo Cox
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Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.
Oscar Wilde
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Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that covenant. America must reduce its federal spending and accumulation of debt for the sake of generations to come.
David Malpass
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This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.
Ben Aaronovitch
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There are certain things I couldn't write because they're not intrinsic to my beliefs. For instance, I couldn't write a hero or heroine who didn't put children first.
Lori Foster
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Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.
Emily Berrington
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Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
Epictetus
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Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
Richard L. Evans
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Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century.
Oliver DeMille
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The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.
David Elkind
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Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.
R. Kent Hughes
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My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.
Merry Clayton
