Child Quotes

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them to read about good and evil, love and hate, life and death. Nor do I think they should read only about things that they understand. '…a man’s reach should exceed his grasp.' So should a child’s. For myself, I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.(from the author's acceptance speech for the Caldecott award)

~ Barbara Cooney

A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren’t we half-breeds too? Aren’t we half our mother, half our father?

~ Anthony Doerr

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child.

~ John Irving

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for, admire, adore, cherish, value, revere, respect, uphold, uplift, protect, shield, defend, safeguard, treasure and love her children. I praise all the cultures of this world that naturally harbor and actively manifest these instincts. If a nation or if a population of people fails to recognize the excellent value and distinction of the lives of her children and is defective enough to have lost the capability of expressing and acting upon these instincts then there is nothing that can save that nation or those people. The prosperity of a people is not measured in banks, financial markets, economy and the death of its humanity is evident not through the loss of life but in the loss of love for its children.

~ C. Joybell C.

One of the things that Christmas reminds us is that Jesus Christ was once a child.

~ Hark Herald Sarmiento

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

~ Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Being sent to bed is a terrible command to all children, because it means the most public possible humiliation in front of adults, the confession that they bear the stigma of childhood, of being small and having a child's need for sleep.

~ Stefan Zweig

The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.The moral of the story?Kids are smart.

~ Vera Nazarian

They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.

~ Jane Green

If you cannot learn from a child, teaching a child might be useless!!!!

~ Harrish Sairaman

A child comes in your Life to correct your Karma, learn instead of putting your Karma on the child!

~ Harrish Sairaman

A child is child.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A kid is what you feed it,plus from that what can be gathered.

~ Will Advise

Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.

~ Nikita Dudani

My child reflect the treatment I give.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate the child within.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

For a child, no hand is stronger and softer than the hand which touches her lovingly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The first sound a child hears is very important. It determines character. A Muslim child always hears the Azan first. Words in praise of God. Words to live by.

~ Jinat Rehana Begum

Your child is least interested in what the report card says. All that matters to him / her is what you say on seeing the report card.

~ Manoj Arora

Children always give this simple message: Be natural, be sincere, be yourself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I regard taking healthy sea level adapted children to the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea as a form of child abuse.

~ Steven Magee

Children think around corners.

~ Jacob M. Held

The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent.

~ Clifford Cohen

The next parent who Googles Is my 2-year-old gifted? should get a curt response: Your 2-year-old is a gift.

~ Ron Fournier

The Lord made no better clock than a child, and none more bitter. Oh, what beautiful clocks they are.

~ Vincent Louis Carrella

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

~ Robin Hobb

Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

I believe that it should be the blessing of every child to be born into a home where that child is welcomed, nurtured, loved, and blessed with parents, a father and a mother, who live with loyalty to one another and to their children.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.

~ Kellyn Roth

One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father’s troubles.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Sometimes when the three of us were together on our own, we would have a good time. I was pretty young, but sometimes we would go off in the woods and build forts and fight Indians and I think things were about as close to fine as they ever got right then during those times. In the woods. No parents. No yelling.

~ Dan Groat