Children Quotes
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
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If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
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Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the innocent, and it is baked in the ovens of Auschwitz. There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but there was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the future and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage to your sight.
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There are people whom even children’s literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
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When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.
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I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.
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I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.
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In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
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Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.
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The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
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I am very patient. I take pride in being patient with my husband, my children, my grandchildren.
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If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.
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Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
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Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.
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Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.
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Children are the true believers, and some of us are lucky enough to make the transition to adulthoood without ever losing the ability to see through young eyes.
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Before we have children, we think most of the parents sitting in sacrament meeting ought to “do something about their kids.” Once we have kids, we think everyone ought to be a lot more understanding about what we’re trying to survive during the meeting. And once our kids are grown, we think, “I never let my kids get away with that.” We really all need to chill out.
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We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.
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When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.
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Through the years, I have helped thousands of children who were ill or in distress.
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Yes, I want children and I can't wait to have that closeness with someone - to bring someone into the world. But, I really don't know when.
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I've always been shy, I was a quiet child. I didn't start speaking until uh, last year.
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My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
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But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.
