Quotes

Kiss your children frequently, because every kiss grants you an extensive place in heaven. Every righteous child is a flower from Paradise. Only those parents who help their children do righteous deeds, expect from them what is in their power, treat them tenderly and never accuse them of ignorance and incompetence are blessed by God.

Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) Rozatul Waezin, Vol. 2, P. 431

The child's heart is like soft soil. Whatever you put into it will be accepted. 

 Imam Ali (A.S.). , Ghurar Al-Hikam, P. 302

Train your children in such a way that they bring respect and eminence to you

 Imam Zain al-Abedeen (A.S.), Tuhaf al-Uqool, P. 269

A Child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. Francois Rabelais c. 1494-c. 1553

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.      Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900-1944

 
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. Mohandas Ghandi, political and spiritual leader in India

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.                                  Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa 

Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.  Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa 

We could never have loved the earth so well, if we had had no childhood in it.

 George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860