Quotes about Children
We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
- Barack Obama
A nation that kills its own children has no future.
- Pope John Paul II
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.
- Theodore Roosevelt
America is great, because America is good. And it really is up to all of us to make that true, now and in the future, and particularly for our children and our grandchildren.
- Hillary Clinton
We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.
- Kathleen Norris
In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
- Robert Byrne
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.
- Martin Luther
For the kingdom is not being prepared, but has been prepared, while the sons of the Kingdom are being prepared, not preparing the Kingdom; that is to say, the Kingdom merits the sons, not the songs the Kingdom. So all hell merits and prepares its children rather than they it.
- Martin Luther
The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife that you may learn to bear these troubles. Those who have no love for children are... unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the creator and author of marriage.
- Martin Luther
I know a beautiful garden, where there are a great many children in fine little coats, and they go under the trees and gather beautiful apples and pears, cherries and plums; they sing and run about and are as happy as they can be. Sometimes they ride on nice little ponies, with golden bridles and silver saddles. I asked the man whose garden it is, "What little children are these?" And he told me, "They are little children who love to pray and learn and are good.
- Martin Luther