When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
Ralph Marston

Children are the keys of paradise.
Eric Hoffer

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.
Larry Bird

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
Rose Kennedy

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
Gertrude Stein

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
Germaine Greer

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
Germaine Greer

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
Red Skelton

I didn't hesitate to kiss my father in public. And that's how I tried to raise my children. We're physical.
Payne Stewart

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow