Children Quotes

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

~ Noah Webster

Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. (Absolute Evil)

~ Julian Hawthorne

How much blood will it take to make them stop? How many more children must die?

~ Brom

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

~ Gregory Maguire

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

~ Kate Morton

It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. You offered an olive branch and it was the wrong olive branch at the wrong time.

~ Mark Haddon

...Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them

~ Karen White

That was the tricky part. You poured inordinate amounts of time and attention and affection into your kids, but the result was indirect. You didn't point out a cat to your one-year-old and then watch him, minutes later, say 'Cat.' Instead, you pointed out a hundred cats to your one-year-old and then, one day, watched him point to a cat and say 'Mama.

~ Katherine Center

Matthew knew that phrenology was nonsense, and yet, years later, he found himself making judgments similar to those made by his father; slippery people looked slippery; they really did. And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudiced and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

~ Michel Houellebecq

She announced her age right away, for children consider their ages every bit as important as their names.

~ Trenton Lee Stewart

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

One winter morning Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.

~ Ezra Jack Keats

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

~ Bette Davis

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

The one encouragement we can always give our children (and one another) is that God is more powerful than our sin, and He's strong enough to make us want to do the right thing.

~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

~ George Bernard Shaw

The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

~ Agatha Christie

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.

~ John Irving

The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-for its own sake rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.

~ Wendy Mogel

Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare.

~ Ed Asner

Children have such an innocent view of their world and surroundings, every thought is a garden full of wonder.

~ C.j. Heck

But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn't think that the master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted a toaster of such institutional proportions. With toast, it's quality that matters, not quantity.

~ Thomas M. Disch

The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.

~ Russell D. Moore

The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.

~ Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We consort with ghosts, even as we sit and eat with, scold and kiss, their current corporeal forms. We speak to people who have vanished and, when they answer us, they do the same. Naturally, the information in these speeches is garbled in the translation.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

~ Louisa May Alcott

The child's naive dream of life is the only one worth having.

~ Marty Rubin

Children played at those stories, they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.

~ Gregory Maguire

If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up.

~ Brigham Young

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

~ Charles Dickens

Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it's up to the children to live up to those principles.

~ Mary Lydon Simonsen

Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human.

~ E. Nesbit

I used to have more tolerance for these views, but I am losing patience with what I see. The test of anything is the fruit it bears. I see no good fruit being born.

~ Charles M. Schulz

... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world. [p. 13]

~ Shirley Hazzard

By now I have come to feel that the fact of being a ‘child’, of being wholly subservient and dependent, of being seen by older people as a mixture of expensive nuisance, slave and super-pet, does most young people more harm than good

~ John Holt

Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.

~ Brent L. Top

Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman.

~ Jennifer Donnelly