Quotes about Children
All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.
— Peter Kreeft
Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.
— Phillips Brooks
Parenthood is an unspeakably solemn matter.
— AW Pink
Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.
— Gordon Hinckley
When all is said and done, the greatest satisfaction you'll have in this life as you grow old will be seeing your children grow in righteousness and faith and goodness as citizens of the society of which they are a part.
— Gordon Hinckley
I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.
— Michelle Obama
We have four grown children and five grandchildren... so far! So, as you can imagine, family is extremely important to us.
— Deborah Raney
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
— George Bernard Shaw
In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction, a hand is put in theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
— George Eliot
The group I am moving towards is at Caleb Garth's breakfast-table in the large parlor where the maps and desk were: father, mother, and five of the children. Mary was just now at home waiting for a situation, while Christy, the boy next to her, was getting cheap learning and cheap fare in Scotland, having to his father's disappointment taken to books instead of that sacred calling business.
— George Eliot
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
— George Eliot
These things have not changed. The sunlight and shadows bring their old beauty and waken the old heart-strains at morning, noon, and eventide; the little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty; and men still yearn for the reign of peace and righteousness
— George Eliot