George Will Children Quotations

Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingly bright they are tend to falter when they encounter academic difficulties.

The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

If those who wrote and ratified the 14th Amendment had imagined laws restricting immigration - and had anticipated huge waves of illegal immigration - is it reasonable to presume they would have wanted to provide the reward of citizenship to the children of the violators of those laws? Surely not.

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.