Quotes about Children

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.

I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.

A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

Unlike concerned parents who may be tempted to isolate their children from the harsh realities of this world, Jesus does not ask that we be removed.

Teach the kids. They need to learn how to handle, grow and multiply money. It's basic and should be taught at an early stage.

Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, 'Sinite parvulos,' he made no distinction between the little children. It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of Barabbas and the Dauphin of Herod. Innocence, Monsieur, is its own crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags as in fleurs de lys.

There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life.

and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words