Child Quotes

Every parent is an artist, for the bared canvas of a newborn’s soul begs for the artist’s touch. And because this is so, a parent must prepare the palette with the utmost care, choose the brushes with poised caution, and mindfully attend to every brushstroke regardless of how slight. And such caution is utterly imperative for the emerging rendering will be both a legacy borne of the parent, and a life lived by the child.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The child you hold in your arms is your gift to a future that you will not see. Therefore, we must turn a blind eye to ourselves and selflessly pour the best of ourselves into our children while rigorously sifting out the worst of ourselves. And once we are utterly spent by such daring gestures, we will shockingly discover the resulting emptiness as astonishingly filled.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Well, I've always wanted to call my son

~ Brian K. Vaughan

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

~ Criss Jami

I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.

~ Paula Hawkins

The partnership between nurses and families is based on mutual trust, and defining the boundaries and rules clearly will help everyone involved, especially your child.

~ Charisse Montgomery

Do as you must -- you are not a child. But understand that there are many people willing to make your life more difficult. It is up to you to find a way to make things easier for yourself.

~ Nadia Hashimi

Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.

~ Criss Jami

I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald.

~ Anthony Liccione

This is for the kids who know that the worst kind of fear isn't the thing that makes you scream, but the one that steals your voice and keeps you silent.

~ Abby Norman

I was the problem and the solution.

~ Abby Norman

On our way back to her house, I didn’t look at the city lights any longer. I looked into the sky and felt as if the moon was following us.When I was a child, my grandmother told me that the sky speaks to those who look and listen to it. She said, “In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion.” That night I wanted the sky to talk to me.

~ Ishmael Beah

I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to get to them I had to bring up painful memories.

~ Ishmael Beah

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

~ Ishmael Beah

Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

~ Elizabeth George

Half-Lieutenant Marsh’k Kluss’ta was not a happy man. Naturally, that didn’t bother him as things were rarely otherwise. As the commanding sub-officer of the Black Sunrise, happiness was not a state of mind expected of him, though in reality – our reality – he was probably not such a bad person. The crew, though terrified of him even under normal circumstances, believed that he had the heart of a little child. (Let’s leave it at that, shall we?)

~ Christina Engela

And, like the prodigal son, he had returned broken in body and also in mind to the house where he had been born, and he and his child had been welcomed with open arms.

~ Catherine Cookson

Mind control is built on lies and manipulation of attachment needs.Valerie Sinason, (Forward)

~ Alison Miller

How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a child or cast and case traumatic shadows over the whole of adult life? We might, as a society, slowly find it possible to accept that one in four citizens are likely to have experience some form of emotional, psychical, sexual or spiritual abuse (McQueen, Itzin, Kennedy, Sinason, & Maxted, 2008), in itself a figure unimaginable and hidden twenty years ago. However, accepting the way a hurt and hurting parent or stranger re-enacts their disturbance with a vulnerable child or children remains far easier to digest than to consider the intellectually planned, scientific, methodical, procedures of organized child-abusing perpetrators-in other words, torture.

~ Valerie Sinason

My arrivalHer womb’s delightHer existenceMy living lightHer woundsMy scarsHer skiesMy starsHer daysMy hoursHer strengthMy powersI breathe my name Being her childWithout motherLife’s beguiledFrom the poem 'Mother

~ Munia Khan

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

~ Danny Silk

We are God's chosen people.We are God's treasured possession.Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as God's children.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.

~ Thomas Bernhard

I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there's one thing being a victor doesn't guarantee, it's our children's safety. My kids' names would go right into the reaping balls with everyone else's. And I swear I'll never let that happen.

~ Suzanne Collins

Out here you need to live in the moments. Watch the world. You're a young man, Jal, a child who's refused to grow up. Do it now, or you'll die a young man.

~ Mark Lawrence

To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents. To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world.

~ J.r. Rim

Even the most misfitting childWho's chanced upon the library's worth,Sits with the genius of the EarthAnd turns the key to the whole world.--Hear It Again

~ Ted Hughes

The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

But I find it strange that her excitement over a new child in her life was so explosive, so vivid and yet there is nothing in terms of photos shared and the cute stories of milestones accomplished in a child’s life.

~ Vicki Perry

KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don’t care if you’re Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU. It’s that SIMPLE.

~ Carew Papritz

Educate every child for a good courage.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Merin smiled. I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.

~ Catherine M. Wilson

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

~ Margery Williams Bianco

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality.

~ Anaïs Nin

I think there some kind of instinct connection between me and children. When I see children I find it quiet hard to take my eyes off them, and I could not hold my smile either. I really love their simplicity and innocence. If everyone would've have been childlike, not childish, the world would be a better place.

~ Nurudeen Ushawu

To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap.

~ Amit Kalantri

When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.

~ Amit Kalantri

Children see magic because they look for it.

~ Christopher Moore

Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.

~ Peggy O'mara

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.

~ Eileen Kennedy-Moore