Quotes about Children
Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have control of them. He seems to take possession of their young minds, and they are corrupted. Why do fathers and mothers act as though a lethargy was upon them? They do not mistrust that Satan is sowing evil seed in their families.
- Ellen White
You struggle. You fight and you claw inside that head of yours. You wrestle with God, with the idea that he actually cares for you, with the place your children have brought you, and a thousand other things. There's something about your struggle others need to know. That they'll benefit from." "I don't understand.
- Chris Fabry
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that supposed to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
- Toni Morrison
You have to understand that, Lord. You said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and harm them not. Did you forget? Did you forget about the children? Yes. You forgot. You let them go wanting, sit on road shoulders, crying next to their dead mothers. I've seen them charred, lame, halt. You forgot, Lord. You forgot how and when to be God.
- Toni Morrison
The fathers may soar, they may triumph, they may leave, but the children know who they are; they remember, half in glory and half in accusation.
- Toni Morrison
Never underestimate your role as a father. Remember, Dads, that your children's view of God will largely be dependent on their view of you.
- Tony Evans
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
- Kerry Washington
King Solomon wrote, "Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth" (Psalm 127:3—4, emphasis added).
- Kris Vallotton
God's "wrath only goes forth because God is Love, and because sin is that which injures His children and is opposed to the purpose of His love.
- George Knight
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.
- George Bernard Shaw
I can see little consistency in a type of Christian activity which preaches the Gospel on the street corners and at the ends of the Earth, but neglects the children of the covenant by abandoning them to a cold and unbelieving secularism.
- J. Gresham Machen
We've never had twin infants on set in all kinds of different roles.
- Jennifer Konner