Quotes about Children
His gray suit makes him seem extra vulnerable, in the way of children placed in unaccustomed clothes for ceremonies they don't understand.
- John Updike
We weren't idealistic about much, we children of the 1950s, but we were certainly idealistic about art. We went into it with the highest kind of ambition — not to get rich or to impress women, but to make our mark as Proust and Joyce had made their mark.
- John Updike
happier. The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- John Wooden
Abraham Lincoln. He once said that the best thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother.
- John Wooden
Now parents will say, "We're just trying to make ends meet," and they're telling the truth. But if you think too much about the pursuit of material things, you're going to hurt those youngsters you're working so hard to buy material things for.
- John Wooden
Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.
- Zig Ziglar
When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.
- Shane Claiborne
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure
- Henry David Thoreau
We must turn all of our educational efforts to training our children for the choices which will confront them... The child who is to choose wisely must be healthy in mind and body. The children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
- Margaret Mead
We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
- Marianne Williamson
Today, the issue isn't quantity of food as much as it is quality-whether kids are getting enough protein and other nutrients to fully develop.
- Bill Gates