Children Quotes

Helen devises plans to become a monster herself.

~ Ekaterina Sedia

Invest your money and time acquiring knowledge for yourself... and the good news is that as you do so, you keep your children and grandchildren and unborn generations enlightened by what you have already learnt!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The imagination and trust of a young child are immeasurable. Through the prism of their eyes all things are possible, all dreams come true, and all people are friends. There is beauty in the seriousness of their play and their laughter is pure and unspoiled. Regardless of what other people say…go ahead and act like a child. Hang on to that simple spirit of living for as long as you possibly can.

~ Jason Versey

In these writings, and in all my teaching work, I continue to ask the question, “What about the children?

~ Albert J. Lachance

Rocco was gripped with the panic he often experienced around her, around himself. He seemed to be both here now and simultaneously five years in the future looking back at this moment, at the loss of this moment. He was always sliding past the nowness of being with her, throwing himself at her like a cranked-up insincere clown for an exhausting fifteen minutes a day or getting cozy with booze in order to achieve the proper mood, and from the time she was born he had felt he was on his deathbed, remembering with regret how skittish and slippery his time with her had been. Had been, as if she were a hard thirty-seven and divorced instead of a two-year old baby, as if he were eighty-six and senile instead of forty-three and slightly overweight.

~ Richard Price

Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold.

~ Lesa Howard

Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God’s children will one day fall.

~ Jim George

We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.

~ Cassandra Clare

The only thing Jess really cared about were those two children and letting them know they were okay. Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you'd be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved.

~ Jojo Moyes

You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.

~ Cassandra Clare

I was twelve. You were girls, and therefore an entirely different species.

~ Elizabeth May

Your mother said that Fraser sent her back to me, knowing that I would protect her--and you. ... And like him, perhaps I send you back, knowing---as he knew of me--that he will protect you with his life. I love you forever, Brianna. I know whose child you truly are. With all my love, Dad.

~ Diana Gabaldon

Children with autism are colourful - they are often very beautiful and, like the rainbow, they stand out.

~ Adele Devine

I'm only keeping in touch with you for the sake of the children. Way to look after our son, by the way. I let you have him for the weekend and before I know it he's chained underground, awaiting Last Times and stinking of mead.

~ Joanne Harris

I wasn't exactly good with children. I wasn't bad with them, as such. I just wasn't around them much and, because of that, when I was, they freaked me out because I didn't know what to do with them.

~ Kristen Ashley

Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom.

~ Linda Becker

Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this life, this block of time, and what do you think about that?

~ Jodi Picoult

Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their attention as they explore their new surroundings. Adults however, have grown up hearing the word ‘no’, ‘don't do that,’ and ‘quit daydreaming so often, they create their own little world, a world with lots of limitations. What then do most adults teach to their children? ‘No’, ‘don't do that,’ and ‘quit daydreaming.’ So, what can you learn from a child today…?

~ James A. Murphy

Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop. The water that scares you rejuvenates me. For unlike you I can swim, and swim I shall. The ocean is my homeland. If you are with me, come to the ocean. If not, stop interfering with me and go back to the chicken coop.

~ Elif Shafak

Morals do exist outside of organized religion, and the ‘morality’ taught by many of these archaic systems is often outdated, sexist, racist, and teaches intolerance and inequality. When a parent forces a child into a religion, the parent is effectively handicapping his or her own offspring by limiting the abilities of the child to question the world around him or her and make informed decisions. Children raised under these conditions will mature believing that their religion is the only correct one, and, in the case of Christianity, they will believe that all who doubt their religion’s validity will suffer eternal damnation. This environment is one that often breeds hate, ignorance, and ‘justified’ violence.

~ David G. Mcafee

In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm. In the postindustrial age, children are emotional assets but economic liabilities, costing both a middle-class husband and wife or a single parent over $10,000 a year.

~ Rachel Lehmann-Haupt

Children need to see that they are part of a history and that the story of their family is a living thing. God tells it, a new story in each generation, and each must hold hands across the sea of time, joining together the ones who went before and the ones who come after. It is given from above. Little do we understand this in the beginning, but time teaches us many things we did not expect to learn. That is life. It is the same everywhere.

~ Michael D. O'brien

My aim is to sort the jumble of information we throw at these children and present it in such a way that they will have a greater chance of achieving independence and fulfilment.

~ Adele Devine

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I believe in giving as honest an answer as I can. Because perhaps if people spent more time being honest with each other, especially with children, there would be less unhappiness in the world.

~ Jane Lotter

Children are God's way of saving us. They give us a second chance at getting it right.

~ Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.

~ Karen Russell

DOSTIE: Let's be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they're like a new snowfall, you know?

~ Hillary Depiano

Children only know what you teach them.

~ Paul Ramsey

The nastiest kind of writer is a ghostwriter, who bears people’s children in their body for money.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

What a funny girl, I thought, and then I realized something. To the three-year-old ye, and maybe even to the thirty year old eye, weeds and grass look very similar. Same color, same feeling, same texture.

~ Angie Smith

When I was a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; that business minded people can meet there easily! Your dream must be situated where they can meet people!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

As a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; that business minded people can meet there easily! Your dream must be situated where they can meet people!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

~ Cassandra Clare

I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

We enshrine things to memory very differently than we experience them in real time. The psychologist Daniel Kahneman has coined a couple of terms to make the distinction. He talks about the experiencing self versus the remembering self.

~ Jennifer Senior

If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Today, make time to play.

~ Na'ama Yehuda

You’re only as happy as your least happy child,’ is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.

~ Sarah Payne Stuart