Children Quotes

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

~ Russell Brand

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

~ Roald Dahl

May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

~ Walt Disney Company

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

~ Joanne Harris

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.

~ Phyllis Diller

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

~ Milan Kundera

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

~ Neil Gaiman

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

~ Plato

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

~ Mark Lawrence

It was then that Hook bit him.Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

~ J.m. Barrie

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

~ Harry Edwards

When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

~ Bertrand Russell

What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?

~ John Boyne

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

~ Brian Andreas

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

~ Angela Carter

It is the custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake in the morning, the naughtinesses and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind; and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.

~ J.m. Barrie

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

~ Michael Jackson

If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Children are capable of such open rudeness.

~ Trenton Lee Stewart

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

~ Justine Larbalestier

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

~ Gillian Flynn

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

~ T.h. White

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

~ Michael Jackson

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

Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.

~ Brad Pitt

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

He stepped to her again, laid his lips on her brow. But I want children with you, my lovely Eve. One day.One day being far, far in the future. Like, I don't know, say a decade when...Hold on. Children is plural.He eased back, grinned. Why, so it is--nothing slips by my canny cop.You really think if I ever actually let you plant something in me--they're like aliens in there, growing little hands and feet. She shuddered. Creepy. If I ever did that, popped a kid out--which I think is probably as pleasant a process as having your eyeballs pierced by burning, poisonous sticks, I'd say, 'Whoopee, let's do this again?' Have you recently suffered head trauma?Not to my knowledge.Could be coming. Any second.

~ J.d. Robb

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

~ Anna Quindlen

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires. And in writing _Ender's Game_, I forced the audience to experience the lives of these children from that perspective--the perspective in which their feelings and decisions are just as real and important as any adult's. ... _Ender's Game_ asserts the personhood of children, and those who are used to thinking of children in another way ... are going to find _Ender's Game_ a very unpleasant place to live.

~ Orson Scott Card

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

~ Joni Eareckson Tada

A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man

~ Mario Puzo

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

~ Peggy O'mara

They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it.

~ Suzanne Collins

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

~ Deborah Harkness

Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there instead. I've witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his son out to skate before he can even walk. Or in the mother who gave up her ballet dreams when she married, but now scrapes her daughter's hair into a bun and watched from the wings of the stage. We are not, as you'd expect, orchestrating their lives; we are not even trying for a second chance. We are hoping that if this one thing takes root, it might take up enough light and space to keep something else from developing in our children: the disappointment we've already lived.

~ Jodi Picoult