Children Quotes

Independance grows out of a child's faith that her source of security will always be there when she needs it.

~ Kathleen Huggins

Child give me your hand so that I may walk in the light of your faith in me.

~ Hannah Kahn

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

~ Achy Obejas

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

~ Jodi Picoult

Julia heard from her mummy that fairies were gentle creatures with singing voices just like the mermaids.

~ Magda M. Olchawska

Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.

~ John Taylor Gatto

Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, son might turn out to be a killer would never have turned up on the list. Rather, it might have looked something like this:1. H

~ Lionel Shriver

As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--becomes less bumptious, physically and entails more loitering with others, sizing people up, flirting, talking, pushing, shoving and horseplay. Adolescents are always being criticized for this kind of loitering, but they can hardly grow up without it. The trouble comes when it is done not within society, but as a form of outlaw life.The requisite for any of these varieties of incidental play is not pretentious equipment of any sort, but rather space at an immediately convenient and interesting place. The play gets crowded out if sidewalks are too narrow relative to the total demands put on them. It is especially crowded out if the sidewalks also lack minor irregularities in building line. An immense amount of both loitering and play goes on in shallow sidewalk niches out of the line of moving pedestrian feet.

~ Jane Jacobs

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

~ Paul Auster

It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all.

~ Antonella Gambotto-Burke

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

~ Mark Helprin

It’s time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It’s time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It’s time we give our kids a fighting chance.

~ Dan Pearce

Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.

~ Jeannette Walls

They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, although he had set the thing in motion. They had different thoughts and beliefs. ~ on children growing up.

~ Zadie Smith

Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do-- have reasons, locked in the depths of their personalities, for their inability to love, to understand, to give of themselves to their children.

~ Virginia M. Axline

Always believe in good and happiness. Never except I can't Always say I can..

~ G.g. Bella

When you were a child, I didn't tell you about the evil in the world, all that lay in wait.

~ Blake Crouch

I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me. I wanted everything for you, son.I still do.

~ Blake Crouch

The dream too thinks twice, gets filtered to go softto be seated on children's eyes.

~ Suman Pokhrel

Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.

~ Lydia Maria Francis Child

The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland.The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides.The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun.The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus.The moral of the story?Kids are smart.

~ Vera Nazarian

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

~ Madeleine L'engle

The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.

~ Karen Maezen Miller

The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of Mankind.

~ Kurt Chambers

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

~ Jeannette Walls

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

~ Beverly Cleary

Encourage don't belittle, embrace their individuality. And show them that no matter what they will always have value if they stay true to themselves.

~ Solange Nicole

I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.

~ Mary Tyler Moore

Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed him and take him to bed. Lady Jeeha Wolf Dawn

~ Susan Cartwright

Everybody who has a baby thinks everybody who hasn't a baby ought to have a baby,Which accounts for the success of such plays as the Irish Rose of Abie,The idea apparently being that just by being fruitfulYou are doing something beautiful,Which if it is trueMeans that the common housefly is several million times more beautiful than me or you.

~ Ogden Nash

Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

~ Stephenie Meyer

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

~ J. Patrick Lewis

On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down.

~ Alan Hollinghurst

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time.

~ Hermann Hesse

My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me, and I got a chance at the kind of life all children deserve.

~ Karen Fowler

And upon his return, Gherkins, who had always considered his uncle as a very top-hatted sort of person, actually saw him take from his handkerchief-drawer an undeniable automatic pistol.It was at this point that Lord Peter was apotheosed from the state of Quite Decent Uncle to that of Glorified Uncle

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing.Well! This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other. Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which it dwells is worth all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mother's heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!

~ Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.

~ Virginia Woolf

Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.

~ Margaret Atwood

You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?

~ Julie Murphy