Quotes about Children
Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults.
- Henri Nouwen
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
- John F. Kennedy
For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.
- Stanley Hauerwas
I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
- Alice Walker
Where are all the sour patch parents?
- Bo Burnham
America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.
- Stephen Colbert
Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
- Maya Angelou
If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.
- Nicole Kidman
The Lord has given gifts to us as well, which, like Israel's of old, are also assignments: children, ministries, churches, cities, nations and many other things.
- Dutch Sheets