Children Quotes

We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.

~ Michael Chabon

And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?

~ Polly Shulman

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

~ Jodi Picoult

Sebastian it is. You can tell me what a patron saint is later, since I have no knowledge of such things. Sebastian Kane.Sebastian Kane Cannon. You're going to marry me and use my last name, right?Is that supposed to be a proposal?

~ Christine Feehan

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be forever fresh born.

~ George Macdonald

We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

~ Thomas Mcguane

You're my life, Elle. When we have our children, they'll be included in that circle and I'm not a man to lose everything. I want you as safe as possible.So you don't think three protection dogs, a room filled with weapons, a panic room and house that eats people isn't just a little overkill?

~ Christine Feehan

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

~ C.s. Lewis

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

~ Ransom Riggs

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

~ Joe Hill

Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us.

~ Rich Mullins

within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.

~ Rhawn Joseph

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

~ Alice Hoffman

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ...

~ Suzanne Collins

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.

~ Anita Shreve

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

~ Wilkie Collins

Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first.  Secondly, it is to teach them.  Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they have the knowledge and tools to govern themselves.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew.He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six.Right.And you're the oldest.Yes.That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

~ Orson Scott Card

Before I had kids, I always found it funny how people would talk about their children like they were the cutest things on the planet and how every little thing they did was endlessly fascinating. Now that I've had kids, I can say with certainty that, my children really are the cutest things on this planet and every little thing they do is endlessly fascinating...

~ Jennifer Miller

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

~ Douglas Coupland

If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.

~ Rita Dove

He was a poet, and they are never exactly grown-up.

~ J.m. Barrie

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

~ Jeffrey Archer

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

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

~ Neil Gaiman

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

~ Jerry Spinelli

Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objectsof affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing afaded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me nowto remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, halffancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it wasfolded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I wascomparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Someone once told me that children are like kites. You struggle just to get them in the air; they crash; you add a longer tail. Then they get caught in a tree; you climb up and bring them down, and untangle the string; you run to get them aloft again. Finally, the kite is airborne, and it flies higher and higher, as you let out more string, until it's so high in the sky, it looks like a bird. And if the string snaps, and you've done your job right, the kite will continue to soar in the wind, all by itself.

~ Charmian Carr

If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies. Like a lot of American kids, I read this book in school. Presumably it was not a coincidence. Presumably someone wanted to point out to us that we were savages, and that we had made ourselves a cruel and stupid world. This was too subtle for me. While the book seemed entirely believable, I didn't get the additional message. I wish they had just told us outright that we were savages and our world was stupid.

~ Paul Graham

Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about.Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

~ Marisha Pessl

The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!

~ Stefan Molyneux

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

~ Louisa May Alcott

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

~ Wess Stafford

As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she thought that if she ran very fast at a pole and then caught it and swung quickly around, part of her would keep going, and she would become two girls.

~ Tao Lin

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

~ Louisa May Alcott

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

Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us?

~ Thomas S. Monson

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.

~ John Fowles