Children Quotes

There is hardly an imaginable form of genital assault that is not regularly performed on children.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Nothing can be more graphic of our hatred of children than an infant mortality rate of American babies in some of our largest cities that is close to that of a Third World country, or than the fact that we tolerate the regular use of poisonous drugs by millions of our teenagers. That we choose […]

There is a theory that since the child will be obliged in later life to do many things that he does not want to do, he might as well learn how while he is young. The difficulty here seems to be that learning to do one kind of a thing that you do not want […]

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning? (Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000)

I love all my children, but some of them I don’t like.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

We have struggle to not proceed but to preceed to the future of a nation’s child.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.