Children Quotes

If Youth, throughout all history, had had a champion to stand up for it; to show a doubting world that a child can think; and, possibly, do it practically; you wouldn’t constantly run across folks today who claim that “a child don’t know anything.” A child’s brain starts functioning at birth; and has, amongst its […]

And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:3)

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. (Matthew 18:6)

Whenever we strike a child, or speak harshly to it for no reason, or do anything to sap it of its enthusiasm for life, we betray our fundamental mission as human beings, which is to leave the universe better organized than we found it.

Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. (Mark 10:14)

Children have but little charity for one another’s defects.

(Being a parent) is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.

There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.

A baby is an inestimable blessing and a bother.