Top 84 Quotes About Precious Children
#1. In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children.
M. Russell Ballard
#2. If I did not allow myself time to exercise and prepare for the day, I would suffer but so would my children. They need a healthy mother. We must take care of our bodies physically and spiritually to be the best provider for our precious children.
Tamara L. Chilver
#3. I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.
Thomas S. Monson
#4. Ah, my dear. Sometimes God takes the most precious children to his own.
Philippa Gregory
#5. It's hard to believe that, in the 1970's, America was virtually hunger-free. During the past two decades, we have allowed hunger to attack our most precious resource, our children. We must reinstate and strengthen programs to eliminate this blight on our society.
Kurtwood Smith
#6. Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.
Newton N. Minow
#7. What adults call 'wrong' in Child Art is the most beautiful and most precious. I value highly those things done by small children. They are the first and purest source of artistic creation.
Franz Cizek
#8. As an extension of Christ in the lives of his children is the only trend enough for a woman's precious energies.
Elaine A. Cannon
#9. Enough, children. In case you haven't noticed, we have a major situation playing out. We have to find and stop War, corral the gallu, protect Apostolos, and get Savitar out of here. (Apollymi) Why the later? (Jared) Because I hate his guts. (Apollymi) I hate you, too, precious. (Savitar)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#10. Doesn't it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn't it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don't feel very precious?
Bill Johnson
#11. Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.
Michael Gove
#12. There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.
William J. Clinton
#13. It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.
Richard Scarry
#14. Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.
Vincent Price
#15. Why do we allow the painful destruction of our most precious &valuable resource: our children, our future? Why do we have the right to live when they do not?" - Zara Heritage
Zara Heritage
#16. The headmaster explained. Books were considered precious. The school had so few that the teachers did not want to risk the children damaging them. I wondered how a book could impart knowledge if it was locked up, but kept that thought to myself.
John Wood
#17. Although people all over the world pray in different ways, it is to each heart the most precious light.
Alexis York Lumbard
#18. More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what is more precious to us than our own children? We are going to build a lot more prisons if we do not deal with the schools and their inequalities.
Jonathan Kozol
#19. To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.
Nancy Reagan
#20. Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of God, as regular old mixed-up, worried, flawed, precious human beings.
Anne Lamott
#21. Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.
Nelson Mandela
#22. Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
Christopher Dodd
#23. Ever since I had my first child I have been passionate in my commitment to preserve our precious resources for my children and their children's children. This is the obligation of all of us visiting this planet for a limited time.
Kyra Sedgwick
#24. Among typical Indigos, you can find exceptionally open-minded individuals who develop the world to greater levels. Some are respected authorities. Others, sadly, are less successful; unable to withstand the huge responsibility and pressure that come with the precious gift of being special.
Sahara Sanders
#25. Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our most precious national resource: our children, our future citizens.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#26. By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly legacy of slavery-teaching our children that some lives are inherently less precious than others.
Joseph Lowery
#27. I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.
Alice Walker
#28. By God's grace I can resist the temptation to treat my children as interruptions to my will for my life. Instead, God enables me to treat my children as precious gifts he is using to shape me into his image according to his will for my life.
Gloria Furman
#29. It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace our lives.
Thomas S. Monson
#30. I've been blessed to spend time with young people and help encourage an environment where it's comfortable for them to be who they are. That's precious for children.
Dawnn Lewis
#31. The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#32. I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.
Barbara Kingsolver
#33. God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.
Francois Fenelon
#34. All children are precious in the eyes of God. If we want to better humanity ... we must try and better the lives of all of it's children first.
Timothy Pina
#35. Consider little children. There are not many of them not cute and lovable and precious, sweet as whipped honey and butter. So where do all the wicked people come from?
Glen Cook
#36. The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
Adolf Hitler
#37. Our children are too precious and their time with us too short for us to neglect the unspeakable privilege we have in loving them, nurturing them, shaping them, and preparing them to step out into the wide world.
David Jeremiah
#38. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.
Jim Butcher
#39. I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.
Hayao Miyazaki
#40. Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child. I have born two children and had seven others by adoption, and they are all my children, equally beloved and precious.
Dale Evans
#41. What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light.
Julia Green
#42. We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
Mark Twain
#43. They were not children. They had grown into people he knew little about. And they had done so without his help or influence, or even,--for the most part--his witness. It made him feel as though something precious had been taken from him.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde
#45. Cure is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?
Lauren DeStefano
#46. Sifting through our thoughts like children going through colored stones
optimistic, because although some were too dark and some were too sharp, many glittered like precious gems.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#47. Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children ... let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money ... and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.
Ansel Adams
#48. You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love. For the land is the most precious thing on this island. It is like rain, like the heart of a woman.
Wu Ming-Yi
#49. On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally.
Ana Monnar
#50. There are few things in life as precious to us as our children. Rare is the woman or the man who wouldn't readily die for his or her offspring.
Debra Webb
#51. children from the same womb would share the same precious blood." I gag.
Tara Brown
#52. She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.
Philip Zaleski
#53. The hand of a bride becomes the hand of a mother. Ever so gently she cares for her precious child. Bathing, dressing, feeding, comforting-there is no hand like mother's. Nor does its tender care diminish through the years.
Thomas S. Monson
#54. The most precious inheritance that parents can give their children is their own happiness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#55. If we do not do something to prevent it, Africa's animals, and the places in which they live, will be lost to our world, and her children, forever. Before it is too late, we need your help to lay the foundation that will preserve this precious legacy long after we are gone.
Nelson Mandela
#56. Children are the world's future, and we need to take care of them like we would any precious resource.
Ziggy Marley
#57. In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.
Martin Jacques
#58. Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price, only value.
Bel Kaufman
#59. The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Shirley Hufstedler
#60. One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.
David O. McKay
#61. I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.
Danny Kaye
#62. How long has it been since you looked into the eyes of your mother and, holding nothing back, spoke those welcome words, 'Mother, I truly love you'? How about Father, who daily toils to provide for you? Fathers appreciate hearing those same precious words from the lips of a child, 'I love you.'
Thomas S. Monson
#63. No gift bestowed upon us us so precious as children. They are proof that God still loves us. They
are the hope of the future Ensign, May 1987
James E. Faust
#64. To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in both the public and private sectors, will work tirelessly to eradicate hunger. We all have a responsibility to bring back life to our most precious natural resource.
Joan Lunden
#66. There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my small amusements, have created such precious art is my life's proudest achievement.
P.T. Barnum
#67. Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#68. What does War, Murder, Genocide, Violence, Abuse, Rape, Domestic Violence, Violence Against Women & Children
Have In Common? Everything ... they all help destroy precious lives!
Timothy Pina
#69. To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.
Rumi
#70. Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.
Joyce Meyer
#71. What happened in Flint is immoral. The children of Flint are just as precious as the children of any other part of America.
Hillary Clinton
#72. Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?"
Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.
J.M. Barrie
#73. Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.
Todd Burpo
#74. You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.
Sandra Dallas
#75. I don't get a lot of time with my children. My time is precious, and time with my two kids is like gold dust to me. I can't get that time back.
Tim Howard
#76. 7How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
Anonymous
#77. When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.
Nicholas Negroponte
#78. When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all colors, yellow as well as white, we need to push toward integrated schools.
Cornel West
#79. READING SHOULD NOT BE PRESENTED TO CHILDREN AS A CHORE OR A DUTY. IT SHOULD BE OFFERED TO THEM AS A PRECIOUS GIFT.
Kate DiCamillo
#80. Love is the most precious gift in life. Be grateful for all the love and support you get from your parents, your family and friends. Because nothing is as precious as receiving true and devoted love" - Monsieur Jac Couture
Lily Amis
#81. This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy its privileges as we have done; and if we leave them poor in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings!
Edward Everett
#82. Most of us like thinking we are God's only children ... At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that God has other children, easily as precious as we. Baptism and narcissism cancel each other out.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#83. For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make; We bring our precious gifts to them, Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.
Phoebe Cary
#84. [Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.
Lionel Shriver
