Children Quotes

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

It's fun being a kid.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. [Luke 17:2]

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]