Children Quotes

Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.

Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.

Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.

Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.

Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

Some day there will have to be some new rules established about name-calling. I don't mean the routine cursing that goes on between husband and wife, but the naming of defenseless, unsuspecting babies.

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren [Buffett] things that, because he's very intelligent about the world but doesn't get to go out in Africa and see what we see, we've taken and say to him where we stand and it's basically a very positive report that his gift has made a phenomenal difference.

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don't have them at all.

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams.

When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.

[The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth.

My sons...I was crazy about my sons and I think I've done a super job in bringing them up.

The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me.

Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Adults are only obsolete children.

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

A child is born to win, but too many have been conditioned to lose.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

We have far too many kids. At one time in the playpen there was standing-room only. It looked like a bus stop for midgets. It used to get so damp in there, we'd have a rainbow above it.

Start your child's day with love and encouragement and end the day the same way.