Children Quotes

Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I may deserve your disappointment as well as a lecture and strict discipline, but what I need is your understanding, your guidance, and your unconditional love.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I try to feel my own edges in the low light. I send my mind to the outer edges of me — where do I end?I send myself to my innermost edges,and I see that in both directions I am infinite.

~ Jessica Bates

How do you explain to a child who likes everyone in the world that adult life consists to a great extent of cutting people away?

~ Miranda Emmerson

To speak of ‘trying again’ while her ghost was still in the room was an insult to both the child gone before and the child that might come after. The child before might be merely a precursor, a practice run, a whole person deemed sufficiently remembered and loved; while the child after might be a bandaid child, a second child, a replacement child. Without time taken to wait – not until the first child was forgotten but until the hideous burning fire of grief had dulled – neither child could be fully a person, but just a function of the other.

~ Anna Spargo-Ryan

It is unreasonable to expect all children to develop correctly in unnatural man-made electromagnetic radiation fields.

~ Steven Magee

Oh God, forgive me for the hateful thoughts, because I love them, these brutal, disarming bastards, I love them …

~ E.r. Braithwaite

You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There's no mystery. But you put a thousand times more effort into raising your child and the result is the opposite of what you hope and dream for. This seemed so unfair.

~ Jeffery Deaver

How can man put a cost on saving this planet of ours?Have we traversed so far down the road that all we care about is money and wealth?Do we honestly care about the coming generations or are we so greedy that we don't really give a damn about what happens after we leave this life behind?To all of you that read this, stop and look at your son's or daughter's. Walk to your windows and look outside and see other children playing heedless of their parent's greed and selfish ideals.It's the children who we are saving this world for.Not Us!

~ Anthony T. Hincks

The children's hobbies aren't only the children's hobbies - the parents put just as many hours into them, year after year, sacrificing so much, paying out such huge amounts of money, that their significance eats its way even into adult brains. They started to symbolize other things compensating for or reinforcing the parents' own failures.

~ Fredrik Backman

A child is like a ship. One can never be too young to be steered to the right course.

~ Regan Walker

You should have tried the eggplant parmesan she tried to hoist on me at the church bake sale. No wonder her children turned to Satan. He probably showed up as an angel of light and promised them a decent meal.

~ Kathy Hepinstall

If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate the child within.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The life I chose when I promised my six-year-old self never to forget being a child, never to grow frightened and dishonest like the grownups I saw, nodding politely to each other without affection, and decided to put my true self in a time capsule for later use.

~ Aurora Levins Morales

Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds, parents need it to be able to get up the next morning.

~ Fredrik Backman

Motherhood has taught me that love is the best gift you can ever give to your children.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

I struggle to listen, to sit, and to study-I would rather play and create art with my brushes and putty.I wish I could focus on things that I know-Like cars, Mars, and playing with dough.

~ Brenda Lochinger

It's children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust.

~ Justin Cronin

Parenting: Nobody really wants the job, but everybody thinks they can do better.

~ Bruce Lansky

Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.

~ Gavriel Savit

It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Help your child see others' emotions as well as experiencing his or her own without imposing your judgment.

~ Iben Dissing Sandahl

Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is.

~ Carsten Jensen

The best gift you can give your children is to keep yourself emotionally, physically, spiritually and intellectually healthy.

~ Iben Dissing Sandahl

My son, Edward, at 4, to a neighbor boy who was being a pain in our backyard: Oh, don't whine. my mom will throw you right out of here.

~ Cynthia Jo Mahaffey

I have nothing against kids—as long as they go home with their parents at the end of the day.

~ Michael A. Stackpole

Children teach us more than our elders because they are real reflector of our society.

~ Nature Shreshtha

Children teach us more than our elders because they are a real reflector of our society.

~ Nature Shreshtha

Children are the angels that the gods give us.

~ Avijeet Das

We must remain calm as parents and try not to lose control of ourselves, when we become parents. For how can we expect our kids to control themselves if we can’t do it? That seems unfair.

~ Iben Dissing Sandahl

He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant.

~ Laini Taylor

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

~ Peter Wessel Zapffe

Moments later as we crossed the road to the 50’s diner, I recited the restaurant rules in my head one more time.Rule one: Keep your hands clean.Rule two: Careful with the food trays.Rule three: Visit the soda fountain as often as you like, but don’t make yourself sick.Rule four: Enjoy the poodle skirt.

~ Kate Willis

Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres.

~ Khaled Hosseini

A man enrich his community. A man teach and display leadership qualities for his children. A man by his presence is safety and security for his Queen. The best the thing a man can do for this world, his children and Queen is be a man.

~ Carlos Wallace

Worrying about life’s circumstances of those I love, but over which I have no control is a dangerous, never-ending and pointless game to play.

~ Iben Dissing Sandahl

The phrase ‘Boys will be boys,’ reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

When your kids get excited, let them have that feeling and share the excitement with them. Sharing makes it bigger.

~ Iben Dissing Sandahl

Because a child is bound to grow, society is intent upon cultivating the child’s mind to mature into a very specific type of responsible person. Children take great pleasure in small things that have no practical purpose in their dreamy world where they can be as wild as wind. Each year a part of the child dies, as it is burden with adult responsibilities.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster