Quotes about children
children father two
We need strength beyond ourselves to keep the commandments in whatever circumstance life brings to us. The combination of trials and their duration are as varied as are the children of our Heavenly Father. No two are alike. But what is being tested is the same, at all times in our lives and for every person: will we do whatsoever the Lord our God will command us? Henry B. Eyring
children people enemy
The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.
children father joy
We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His desire is to grant us that sacred wish for unity out of His love for us.
children powerful father
Heavenly Father has assigned us to a great variety of stations to strengthen and, when needed, to lead travelers to safety. Our most important and powerful assignments are in the family. They are important because the family has the opportunity at the start of a child's life to put feet firmly on the path home.
children father unique
Heavenly Father has made each of us unique. No two of us have exactly the same experiences. No two families are alike. ... Yet a loving Heavenly Father has set the same path to happiness for all of His children. Whatever our personal characteristics or whatever will be our experiences, there is but one plan of happiness. That plan is to follow all the commandments of God.
children heart opportunity
When tragedy strikes, or even when it looms, our families will have the opportunity to look into our hearts to see whether we know what we said we knew. Our children will watch, feel the Spirit confirm that we lived as we preached, remember that confirmation, and pass the story across the generations.
children feelings praying
As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow.
children differences common
The children of God have more in common then they have differences.
children choices generations
Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.
children government years
A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an efficient Constitution; another twelve years of energy brought a reaction against the government then created; a third period of twelve years was ending in a sweep toward still greater energy; and already a child could calculate the result of a few more such returns. Henry Adams
children play ratios
Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself
children flower tired
For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with flowers, lost its way. Helen Hunt Jackson
children responsibility discovery
Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery Helen Hayes
children childhood seasons
Childhood is a short season.
children commitment years
A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man. Helen Fisher
children average europe
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
children joy sorrow
The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow. Hazrat Inayat Khan
children texas insult
Never spit in front of women and children, and never insult the great state of Texas. Henry Garza
children clothes progress
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. Henry George
children men class
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
children mean thinking
I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States. Henry Giroux
children people wife
Everything I have is a private company. And even though a public company's a great thing, it's great for financing and all of the stuff you need to do. I'm not answering to anybody but my wife and my children and the people who work for me, and my partners. Henry Blodget
children house cooking
I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well. Helle Thorning-Schmidt
children father fairy-stories
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories. Hedy Lamarr
children war long
Every day women and children are killed and maimed by landmines long after wars are over. Heather Mills
children divorce culture
Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.
children sight people
People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes. Hector Hugh Munro
children emotion given
Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.
children hyacinths grows
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
children thinking years
I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings. We do not wish to see children precocious, making great strides in their early years like sprouts, producing a soft and perishable timber, but better if they expand slowly at first, as if contending with difficulties, and so are solidified and perfected. Such trees continue to expand with nearly equal rapidity to extreme old age. Henry David Thoreau
children eye hopeful
All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.
children father air
The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us. Mahatma Gandhi
children cutting men
This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists. If any branch of that tree does not bear fruit, the Master tells us that it shall be cut off and cast into the fire. It is the duty of all living things to produce some truly constructive labor as recognition of the divine life which is within them. God is most glorified when His children glorify His spirit within themselves. Manly Hall