Quotes about Children
Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.
— Billy Graham
I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.
— Mark Vonnegut
Expressions of solemn testimony have long been important to the children of God upon the earth.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Learn to make peace with the mysteries of surrender, submission, endurance. The promise is based on God's grace. The promise comes by faith. All of Abraham's children will certainly receive the promise. And it is not only for those who are ruled by the law. Those who have the same faith that Abraham had are also included. He is the father of us all. —Romans 4:16 NIrV
— Robin Jones Gunn
Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.
— Ronald Reagan
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
— Ronald Reagan
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
— Frederick Douglass
May all people here find inspiration and strength to build a future of reconciliation, justice and peace for all the children of this beloved land.
— Pope Francis
When a family loses its ability to dream, children don't grow, love doesn't grow and life loses strength, eventually it shuts off.
— Pope Francis
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There are those who insist that mothers are born with love for their children and place them before all other things, including their own needs and desires. This was not the case with us.
— Alice Hoffman
As the summer passed, I began to feel free. I had time to myself, and I enjoyed watching over the children. I felt a sort of joy I'd never felt before. I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy.
— Alice Hoffman