The bear licks, loves, and forms her young; but bears are not philosophers. (on Rousseau’s having abandoned his children to orphanages)
Children Quotes
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.
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
This morning, my son told me that he and his pal Brian are going to build a time machine so they can zap themselves back to prehistory and cavort with the dinosaurs. Should they succeed, I’m going to ask him to drop me off in my own childhood. Nothing against the Jurassic period, but it […]
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?
I read one psychologist’s theory that said, “Never strike a child in anger.” When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he is recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on a Sunday?
Children really brighten up a household – they never turn the lights off.
Oh, listen to the children while they play, Now ain’t it kinda funny what the children say, Skip a rope. Daddy hates mommy, mommy hates dad, Last night you shoulda heard the fight they had, Gave little sister another bad dream, She woke us all up with a terrible scream. Cheat on your taxes, don’t […]
Love means that the adults be genuinely concerned with the evolution of the true nature of the child. Children are not able to respond to a love which tries to fashion them according to the concept of the adult, no matter how good the latter’s intention may be.
You have to love your children unselfishly. That’s hard. But it’s the only way.
