Children Quotes

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

If there's no inner peace, people can't give it to you. The husband can't give it to you. Your children can't give it to you. You have to give it to you.

I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.

For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.