Children Quotes

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

~ Carla H. Krueger

The birth of a child is divine miracle.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It’s never too early to begin pointing your little ones’ souls heavenward.

~ Elizabeth George

Listen in close, Wall Street Conquistadors, you’re spreading like vapor up through people’s floors, you’re moving en masse under the cracks of our doors and grabbing our children to work in your stores, feeding the needy to make them your whores, but you need to remember the grave you’re digging is yours.

~ Trevor D. Richardson

To retreat into oneself and meet nobody for hours on end—that is what one must be able to attain. To be alone, as one was alone as a child, when the grown-ups walked about involved in things which seemed great and important, because big people looked so busy and because one could comprehend nothing of their doings. And when one day one realises that their affairs are paltry, their professions benumbed and no longer connected with life, why not still like a child look upon them as something strange from without the depth of one's own world, regarding them from the immunity of one's own loneliness, which is itself work, position and profession? Why desire to exchange a child's wise incomprehension for self-defence and disdain? Incomprehension is loneliness, but self-defence and disdain are participation in that from which one is trying to separate oneself by these means.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Racism, Dr. Sam. I worry for my kids about racism. Racism doesn't appear to take holidays or time off. What can I do about this stuff?

~ Allan Dare Pearce

She will not plant the seed in their mind, that a parent is capable of abandoning her children, of saying to them You are not enough. For Pari, the children and Eric have always been enough. They always will be.

~ Khaled Hosseini

It takes maturity to be able to laugh like a child again.

~ Moffat Machingura

We must trust that what we're doing has a purpose. We must realize that we're not here to make kids conform or perform, but that we're here to help them to develop their own unique skills and talents, not the ones we want them to have or the ones we think they should have.

~ Tom Walsh

Because Christ doesn’t scream to get our attention, we have to find places and times that are quiet. We can look for Him throughout the day in a smile or the sunlight through a cloud. He’s there in a baby’s face—every time in a baby’s face.

~ Toni Sorenson

This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.

~ E. Nesbit

Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

His child. His child with Caroline. Their child. After the things he’d said to her this morning, this would likely be their only child. Would it be a little bespectacled boy who wore his clothes haphazardly and followed his papa around holding a magnifying glass in one hand and notebook in the other? Or would it be a beautiful, dark-haired, blue-eyed girl who was always getting into trouble for dragging the hem of her skirt through the mud while she dug around in the flowerbeds? He smiled at mental image. Most men wished for a boy, but he’d gladly take a little girl who was just like Caroline.

~ Rose Gordon

These young people are going to change the world.

~ Allan Dare Pearce

Children are something, don't ya think? she rarely spoke in that way, the freaky speculative way. I mean, you fall in love and as a result, little people are running around

~ Jebreel Nahaary

There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children

~ Jim George

A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction. A ridge of lighted heath, alive, glancing, devouring, would have been a meet emblem of my mind when I accused and menaced Mrs. Reed: the same ridge, black and blasted after the flames are dead, would have represented as meetly my subsequent condition.

~ Charlotte Brontë

What we learn in childhood is carved in stone. What we learn as adults is carved in ice.

~ David Kherdian

Kids are important. The most important thing.

~ Allan Dare Pearce

I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

~ Robin Hobb

From what I can tell, the chief distinguishing factor between children and adults is that children hear everything while appearing not to and adults hear nothing while pretending to listen.

~ Stephen Mccauley

When I encourage someone, I see it as an investment in their resilience.

~ Steve Karagiannis

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

~ Leslye Walton

You and I. Hand in hand. An endless story of love. A love that grew in me for 9 months and only grows bigger each day.You and I. Hand in hand. An endless journey. Countless steps. One destination - your happiness.You and I. Hand in hand. My heart and blood. I'll share it all - take it - my whole life is you.

~ Veronika Jensen

As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked.

~ Terry Pratchett

The little kids by the water threw their hands in the air and squealed, chasing each other in circles.It was hard to believe that I’d ever been that small. That young. That happy and clueless. They hadpain ahead. Heartbreak. Loss. They didn’t know and I didn’t want them to – but at the same time, Ihated that I hadn’t known. I’d taken everything for granted – my mother, my friends in Alexandria,playing hockey. I dreamed about the future because that’s what people persuade you to do whenyou’re a kid, but that’s the biggest lie of all – that you can plan. Reality is, you have no fucking cluewhat’s coming and neither do they

~ Tammara Webber

We were no longer, technically, children although in many ways I am quite sure that we were. Childish has become a term of contempt. Don't be childish, darling. I hope to Christ I am. Don't be childish yourself. It is possible to be grateful that no one that you would willingly associate with you say, Be mature. Be well-balanced, be well-adjusted. Africa, being as old as it is, makes all people except the professional invaders and spoilers into children. No one says to anyone in Africa, Why don't you grow up? . . . Men know that they are children in relation to the country and, as in armies, seniority and senility ride close together. But to have the heart of a child is not a disgrace. It is an honor. A man must comport himself as a man. . . . But it is never a reproach that he has kept a child's heart, a child's honesty and a child's freshness and nobility.

~ Ernest Hemingway

We watch them grow, with sadness and amazement and fear. We have stepped away, but not entirely away. They know this. They sense it. We are no longer here, but we are not yet gone. And we will be like that for the rest of their lives.We watch, and they surprise us.We watch, and they surpass us.

~ David Levithan

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

~ Lois Lowry

Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it's to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever it is that they are enthusiastic about!

~ Steve Karagiannis

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

~ Paul Russell

But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest

~ Hermann Hesse

At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.

~ Kelly Corrigan

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~ David Chiles

Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

~ Mitch Albom

My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they will not be meek.

~ Allan Dare Pearce

Our children belong to God. We're only given them on loan from heaven. Sometimes God calls them home sooner tan we expected.

~ Scarlet Wilson

If you tell an eight-year-old she has a talent for something, she'll never give it a rest.

~ Lauren Leto

So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so forth. However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents—being an excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit from.

~ Shannon L. Alder

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.

~ Maria Montessori