Quotes about Children
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
Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.
— Stephen Covey
I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job.
— Roseanne Barr
I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice.
— Donald Trump
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
— Jimmy Carter
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
— Golda Meir