Children Quotes

If you control the children, you control the future.

~ Michel Houellebecq

There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch.

~ Edmund De Waal

Children should be able to live a life free from electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure and radio frequency (RF) radiation pollution and it is time that we all took a stand against this.

~ Steven Magee

Mike stood in-line, waiting for the mealtime muck that passed for lunch at his school canteen. He knew he was getting close to the front now, as he tightly held his tray. Not just because he could see this as you might expect, but because he could smell Margery the school cook’s body odour. The children at the front were already holding their breath. You could see a line of pink faces close to him, to red, then purple closest to Margery. Only when they left at the end did they breathe for air and turn back to their normal colour again, like a deep sea diver after a long plunge. “Margery the Meal Murderer” was her name for most school kids.

~ L.p. Donnelli

If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.

~ Beatrix Potter

Adults, waiting for tomorrow, move in a present behind which is yesterday or the day before yesterday or at most last week: they don't want to think about the rest. Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.

~ Elena Ferrante

The ScribeUnder the wingsOf the feathered Goddess,And in the middleOf the three dancing women,The scribe comes aliveTo reveal mysteries hiddenThrough divine gifts givenThe scribe is drivenOn his sacred missionTo wake upAll the universe'sMen, women andHeavenly children.Under the seven rays of Aten,And from the age of just ten,The scribe comes aliveWith the fertile inkOf his luminous pen.Below the spectacle of the moon,And in the smile of the sun,The scribe is here to show usHow we are all one.

~ Suzy Kassem

Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children--children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what they need. It can be a pretty rough process, too

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, caught up all innocently in the whirlpool of war, will be shocked into illness. The danger lies in the fact that the destruction ranging in the outer world may meet the very real aggressiveness ranging in the inside of the child

~ Anna Freud

He stood over her for as long as he could endure the cold, long enough for the boy tending the dead to pass twice on fingertips and toes. The boy's self-appointed mission was to keep all of their eyes closed, the dead. Otherwise he couldn't sleep, the boy. But he never did anyway, as far as the Agent could tell. Any hour, there he'd be, scuttling from body to body under his calf robe. Many nights when the Agent locked his door, it wasn't to keep the Piegan from stealing his tins and blankets, but to keep the boy's hands from covering his own eyes.

~ Stephen Graham Jones

I pray for my children. That they stay safe and make good decisions. That they be happy, thoughtful, and caring human beings. That they have the strength to get up if they fall down.

~ Terry Mcmillan

Who cries for the children, I do!

~ Ronnie James Dio

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

~ Charles Lamb

This is no tall story. Nor is it a short story. Indeed, a story cannot be measured, for their realities stretch far beyond a page or one person’s life.

~ Leah Broadby

Twenty good friends cannot live together in twenty good years”. We were more than twenty who left the school and the simple statement was beginning to echo hard in my ear, as if grandma actually had that particular day in mind. Pg.100

~ Obehi Peter Ewanfoh

The feast was seen everywhere and in everything. Some women in semi-dresses were busy doing many things at once. Domestic animals were crying their last, with knives on their throats. They too were celebrating the feast in their own ways.Pg.93

~ Obehi Peter Ewanfoh

Each child is a unique person, so raise your child taking this fact intoconsideration.

~ Eraldo Banovac

There is no better way to influence children than being their role model.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Teachers should not fear going off plan if a better learning opportunity presents itself. Plans are plans, but children are living, breathing, creative people, who deserve to have their questions answered and original ideas explored.

~ Adele Devine

Parental Alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child.

~ Steve Maraboli

A child, without toxic interference, will naturally become the person they are meant to be. André Chevalier

~ Nikki Sex

As adults we get so entrapped in illusions and trivia, that we forget the true essence of life; and so often we need to connect with children, to understand that it is the little, priceless joys that make life beautiful and worthy.

~ Manprit Kaur

Opinions are like ugly children … despite it all you love your own.

~ Scott Hutchins

We’d never handled guns so when we saw a person handle it and it went bang, we knew that thing killed. We called it the harmful stick. We learned quickly that if somebody points the stick at you, you die.

~ Alephonsion Deng

Parents have no clue how many things they never teach their children. Their children are simply born with those things.

~ Kirtida Gautam

... the kids, they took us places we never would have gone to on our own. Some times were great... some times were wretched... And there was still no guarantee, no bulletproof glass, safety net, steel-toed boots, anything at all that would promise more good moments... so was it enough? It was.

~ Mary J. Koral

For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.

~ Na'ama Yehuda

I believe that the number 1 most important problem in the United States right now, is the fact that kids will go to school and shoot other kids. And that kids get so hurt at school and at home, that they feel the need to do that. And then, the fact that people are not identifying this as the number one problem of greatest importance to attend to, is the second most important problem!

~ C. Joybell C.

Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality.

~ Angela Carter

It is the responsibility of parent to love and care for their children.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What makes you think children like childish things? Don't tell them how to be children. They want to grow up.

~ M.b. Goffstein

Set example to your children, in speech and in conduct.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes I think as adults we think of them as — because they're small in size that they're small in all ways — and they're not. They have big feelings, and they have big eyes, they see things, they hear things, they're living life just the way an adult does and I think sometimes as adults we forget that.

~ Kevin Henkes

Yes, we can be assured that if we don't change and turn our lives around to become like a little child again we will definitely not get a look at the fulness of our purpose, let alone get in.

~ Donald Pillai

The crimes of children reproduce themselves, closing their victims in cages built of nightmares.

~ Miri Yū

However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.

~ Na'ama Yehuda

Candy. He spoke of candy. Was he still in the child's world where candy stood for something sweet enough to hold back tears? I had grown older, and had lost enthusiasm for childish delights. I wanted what every teenager wants -- freedom to develop into a woman, freedom to have full control over my life! Though I tried to tell him this, my voice had dried up along with my tears.

~ V.c. Andrews

Love and advise your children unconditionally.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?

~ Sunday Adelaja

The task for parents and teachers is not to teach, it is how to inspire the people of youth to find their desire to learn.

~ Hasse Jerner