George Will Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

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

  George Will

  Spiritual, Children, Tests

  George F. Will (1986). “The morning after: American successes and excesses, 1981-1986”, Free Pr

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

  George Will

  Children, Parent, Grace

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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

  George Will

  Children, Chaos, Authority

  George F. Will (1992). “Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990”

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

  George Will

  Children, Long, 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.

  George Will

  Children, Law, Immigration

  "An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship" by George F. Will, www.washingtonpost.com. March 28, 2010.

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