Quotes and Sayings About Children

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Children #War #Father

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Children #Routine #World

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Mother #Children #Crazy

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
-- Abraham Polonsky

#Children #Growing Up #Nice

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
-- Abraham Verghese

#Children #Years #Tragedy

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir

#Children #Islam #Praying

Be just: the unjust never prosper. Be valiant: die rather than yield. Be merciful: slay neither old men, children, nor women. Destroy neither fruit trees, grain, nor cattle. Keep your word, even to your enemies.
-- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

#Children #Men #Yield

It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.
-- Ada Leverson

#Children #Pie #Giving

I'm not gonna fall. I'm tired of falling. I'm tired of seeing our people fall. I don't believe in failure. It's what we put in our minds and our hearts to succeed. And success isn't about money. Success isn't about the biggest house in the world. Success is about loving your family, taking care of your child.
-- Adam Beach

#Children #Believe #Fall