Children Quotes

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

~ Albert Einstein

You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.

~ Patricia Briggs

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

~ Guy Debord

... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...

~ Ann Voskamp

The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

~ Clive Barker

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.

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

~ E.m. Forster

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, Hey fatty-lose some weight. By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of health and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.

~ Amy Chua

If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children need to master for the sake of their souls and the health of the world.

~ Zoe Weil

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

~ George R.r. Martin

I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.

~ Jodi Picoult

One does silly things when one is twelve.

~ Cassandra Clare

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

~ Jane Smiley

But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don’t want people to destroy everything!

~ Magda M. Olchawska

We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.

~ Christopher Morley

I have never even idly thought for a single passing second that it might make my life nicer to have a small rude incontinent person follow me around screaming and making me buy them stuff for the rest of my life.

~ Tim Kreider

Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.

~ Miriam Toews

Once, [Rabbi Chanoch] Teller was traveling with 16 of his [18] offspring ... while changing planes in Frankfurt, Teller noticed a German woman gaping. 'Are all of these your children?' the woman asked. 'From one wife?' 'Yes, God has blessed me with all these children,' the rabbi replied. 'Haven't you heard about the population problem?'the woman sniffed. 'How many more children do you want to have?' Rabbi Teller paused and looked the woman in the eye: 'About 6 million,' he said.

~ Lynn Vincent

I know what I really want for Christmas.I want my childhood back.Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.

~ Robert Fulghum

Because she did not look behind, September did not see the smoky-glass casket close itself primly up again. She did not see it bend in half until it cracked, and Death hop up again, quite well, quite awake, and quite small once more. She certainly did not see Death stand on her tiptoes and blow a kiss after her, a kiss that rushed through all the frosted leaves of the autumnal forest, but could not quite catch a child running as fast as she could. As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.

~ John Boyne

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

~ Charles Dickens

But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish them ill also: they would like to eat them up, and absorb their vitality, and remain immortal themselves. Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past - the past of others, loaded on their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

~ Margaret Atwood

Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children.

~ Kelli Jae Baeli

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

~ Hark Herald Sarmiento

When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.

~ Diana Gabaldon

Done because we are too many.

~ Thomas Hardy

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

~ George W. Bush

Better to have a messy home and happy children than a perfect yard and unhappy children

~ Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

Very young children often accept the paranormal as “normal” until adults squeeze it out them.

~ Doug Dillon

They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways. He'd put himself outside and outside they'd make him stay. Neither brutality nor complaining could force a way in.

~ John Mcgahern

Saturday mornings, I’ve learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face.

~ Dan Pearce

Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow?

~ Jennifer Flackett

Oftentimes I felt ridiculous giving my seal of approval to what was in reality such a natural thing to do, sort of like reinventing the wheel and extolling its virtues. Had parents' intuition sunk so low that some strange man had to tell modern women that it was okay to sleep with their babies?

~ William Sears

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

~ Margaret Wise Brown

A mother who would stop at nothing for her child is dangerous woman when crossed.

~ Solange Nicole

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit's cry may be wilderBut it has no soul.

~ Sylvia Plath

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.

~ Hermann Hesse