Quotes about Children
God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
— Desmond Tutu
America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.
— Barack Obama
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
— Margaret Mead
The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.
— Shane Claiborne
Every time our government chooses to use military force to bring about change in the world, it once again teaches our children the myth of redemptive violence, the myth that violence can be an instrument for good.
— Shane Claiborne
us assemble ourselves before you today through our acts of peace and reconciliation with neighbors near and far. Help us to teach the children in our communities what it means to be children of a God who loves us like a mother. Amen.
— Shane Claiborne
St. Augustine: "The Church is a whore, but she's my mother." She is a mess and has many illegitimate children. But she is also our momma and managed to give birth to us and to give us enough of the truth that we have been able to ask the questions that we have in this book.
— Shane Claiborne
My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.
— Brene Brown
Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.
— Gordon Hinckley
Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
— Barack Obama
I don't see kids smiling around here no more. You look at 'em listen to 'em… they seem worried all the time, mad about something. They got nothing they trust. Not their parents. Not God. Not themselves. And that's not right. That just ain't the way things supposed to be… kids not smiling
— Barack Obama
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
— Barbara Kingsolver