Quotes about children

A collection of quotes on the topic of children.

„We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation. We have an obligation to clean up after ourselves, and not leave our children with a world we've shortsightedly messed up, shortchanged, and crippled.“

— Neil Gaiman English fantasy writer 1960

World, Beauty, Problem

„Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.“

— Rosa Parks African-American civil rights activist 1913 - 2005

„When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.“

— Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

People, Learning, Time

„On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking God to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. And the next Saturday they'd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence. I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out no matter how much it is purged or scoured by any white-light religion.“

— Anton LaVey Founder of the Church of Satan, author of the Satanic Bible 1930 - 1997
As quoted in the Introduction by Burton H. Wolfe

Men, God, Religion, Girl

„Everything here is edible; even I'm edible. But that, dear children, is cannibalism, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies.“

— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963

„Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.“

— Rudolf Steiner, Rhythms of Learning

Books, Lying, Learning, Teachers

„For mum we're fly. What mum you don't know who am I? I am Józio. And this is my sister Rózia. Now we're fly in sky! There is better than mum. See how heads in ray. Clothes with lucifer light. And on my hand as butterfly airfoil in sky we have all what we want, every day other toy, where we go here is grass, where we touch here is a flower. But we have what we want, torture us boring and trepidation. Oh mum for Your children road to heaven has been closed! On Always!“

— Adam Mickiewicz Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, professor of Slavic literature, and political activist 1798 - 1855
Part two.

Flowers, Sister, Light, Grass

„These native children make this and sell you the joint.“

— Dutch Schultz American mobster 1902 - 1935

„People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.“

— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

People

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

— C.G. Jung Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology 1875 - 1961

Education

„Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.“

— Wayne W. Dyer American writer 1940 - 2015

„Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war?
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying earth, these weeping shores?“

— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
Earth Song

War, Cry, Dead

„If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.“

— Maria Montessori Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870 - 1952
Context: If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities. Part I : The Child's Part in World Reconstruction, p. 4.

Men, Help

„As parents in private life teach wisdom to their children, so do [poets] in public life to their cities.“

— Philo Roman philosopher -20 - 45 BC
143.

Life, Wisdom, Parent

„I kidnap children from bathrooms
I eat the children for breakfast
They were so young
Yum Yum Yum“

— Adam Sandler American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer 1966
The Chanukah Song.

„The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.“

— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962

Feeling

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