I think the gods may give us children to teach us what true love really is, that we may be fitted for Their company at the last. A lesson for those of us whose hearts are too dull and inert to learn any other way.
Children Quotes
The only truly happy people are children and the creative minority.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
The bear licks, loves, and forms her young; but bears are not philosophers. (on Rousseau’s having abandoned his children to orphanages)
Our children, before they are born, God declares that he adopts for his own when he promised that he will be a God to us, and our seed after us. In this promise their salvation is included.
As to the exposure and rearing of children, let there by a law that no deformed children shall live.
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
We must develop a fair appreciation for the real strengths and limitations of government effort on behalf of children. Government, obviously, cannot fill a child’s emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.
Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject for study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.
