Quotes about Children
If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.
- Gloria Steinem
A mother needs to be in the home even when the kids aren't. A messy house sends a coded message to children: "I'm not loveable. Otherwise Mother would dust.
- Stephen Colbert
As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.
- Nicole Kidman
The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future.
- Desmond Tutu
Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.
- Marianne Williamson
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
- Oscar Wilde
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears.
- Henry Cloud
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
- Charles Dickens
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
- Abraham Lincoln
A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?
- Stephen Colbert