Children Quotes

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)

The more Boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being Good Parents – because they have a Tame Child-creature in their house.

I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it. (Luke 18:17)

A baby is an inestimable blessing and a bother.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility.

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don’t you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain’t any real difference between triplets and a insurrection.