Children Quotes

Protecting our kids from sexual abuse is not accomplished in a single conversation, but in ongoing conversations grounded in honesty and trust.

~ Carolyn Byers Ruch

Don't put your child at risk. Limit unsupervised one-on-one time between your child & another adult or another child.

~ Carolyn Byers Ruch

I have heard them preach, when I sat in the pew and my feet did not touch the floor, about the final home of the unconverted. In order to impress upon the children the length of time they would probably stay if they settled in that country, the preacher would frequently give us the following illustration: 'Suppose that once in a billion years a bird should come from some far-distant planet, and carry off in its little bill a grain of sand, a time would finally come when the last atom composing this earth would be carried away; and when this last atom was taken, it would not even be sun up in hell.' Think of such an infamous doctrine being taught to children!

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.

~ T.f. Hodge

No child really chooses his religion, it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

~ Jodi Picoult

You two are perfect together. And one day . . . one day your children will change everything.

~ G.a. Aiken

Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero.

~ Carolyn Byers Ruch

For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy.

~ Upasana Saraf

Sometimes I hesitate to use the term sexual abuse. It conjures up worst-case scenarios in our minds, and we think, That will never happen to my kids. And we never begin the conversation regarding sexual abuse with our children. But one violation left in secret can cause significant pain.

~ Carolyn Byers Ruch

Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I don't think Tera is capable of working with you by her own choice, no matter how much grass you pull for her, no matter how much you brush her. I think she's more like ... a three or four-year-old child, and you are her mother. Mothers must be firm with their children, sometimes make them do what needs to be done, sometimes even punish them.

~ J.z. Colby

Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

~ Joyce Maynard

We should teach our kids that they're blessing and not a burden and that they're valuable beyond what they can imagine - in God's eyes, in the world's eyes - that they're purpose is so important to fulfill and it's gonna make a difference in the world. And they're the only ones that can make the difference that they can make, in the way that they can make it. That's why we all have different fingerprints. And I feel like the message is not clear enough. It's not clear because they go to school and they get challenged and they're bombarded with the idea that abortion is okay, that we can just go ahead and, you know, if we're not ready to have a kid we can just take care of that problem. But kids are not a problem, they're not a mistake, they're not a burden. They're blessing from God and that's what we don't understand. My mom was sixteen when she had me and we both almost died, I was a second kid, she had my brother when she was fifteen. And we both almost died and the doctors told her to abort me and I think that a lot of people gave her that advice. So when I grew up I think I had a sense of being a burden. And I think a lot of kids actually have that sense.

~ Lacey Sturm

Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Because even though they may not be able to define or verbalize it, they sense there's something more than meets the eye; on an almost subliminal level, they're aware of a richness of texture, or meaning and emotion -- a richness that, in a great book, is inexhaustible. And the child may well come back to it again and again, perhaps long after he's stopped being a child.

~ Lloyd Alexander

Mom was adamantly pro-choice. She had a bumper sticker on the car that read If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child? But in her case the choice was to keep me.

~ Gayle Forman

I'm Reginald Clark, I'm afraid of the darkSo please do not close this book on me.

~ Shel Silverstein

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

~ Keith Haring

The child, through no fault of its own, and through the very nature of being a child, is egocentric and self-absorbed. Thus, if the daughter does not make her bed, and the mother yells, and the father beats the mother – then the daughter believes all that happened is her fault. Why? Because she did not make the bed, do you see? André Chevalier

~ Nikki Sex

For their holidays: the rich go see the world, the poor go see their parents.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.

~ Dan Pearce

Fairytales teach children that the world is fraught with danger, including life-threatening danger; but by being clever (always), honest (as a rule, but with common-sense exceptions), courteous (especially to the elderly, no matter their apparent social station), and kind (to anyone in obvious need), even a child can succeed where those who seem more qualified have failed.And this precisely what children most need to hear.To let them go on believing that the world is safe, that they will be provided for and achieve worthwhile things even if they remain stupid, shirk integrity, despise courtesy, and act only from self-interest, that they ought to rely on those stronger, smarter, and more able to solve their problems, would be the gravest disservice: to them, and to society as a whole.-On the Supposed Unsuitability of Fairytales for Children

~ J. Aleksandr Wootton

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job, the retired pray for grandchildren.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I remember us saying that we liked small houses, that proximity engendered closeness in a family. That nobody should be raised by a nanny or in day care. I remember us saying that time, not money, was the greatest resource. That everything would be all right. That the universe would provide. That belief was a force more powerful than gravity itself.

~ Jonathan Evison

In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant Grandma Witch.

~ Tomie Depaola

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion, give them nature.

~ Luther Burbank

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

~ Peter Høeg

The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them grown up. The creative adult is the child who survived the blandness of schooling, the unhelpful words of bad teachers, and the nay-saying ways of the world. The creative adult is in essence simply that, a child.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

I believe that parents who love their children do everything for them with love, even discipline.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Although people all over the world pray in different ways, it is to each heart the most precious light.

~ Alexis York Lumbard

Shot the man! Shed human blood! Hid in a pool! ejaculated Mr. Dove, overcome. Really, Rachel, you are a most trying daughter. Why should you go out before daybreak and do such things?

~ H. Rider Haggard

And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.

~ Tim Winton

She was still glad she looked like Scully. He wasn't pretty either, but pretty people weren't the kind you need. Pretty people saw themselves in the mirror and were either too happy or too sad. People like Billie just shrugged and didn't care. She didn't want to turn into anyone pretty. Anyway, she had scars now, you only had to look.

~ Tim Winton

I hate our current leaders becouse they don't know the value of there people, but like there ideas because it will soon turn against them and any of there kind.

~ Hamzatribah

single universe, many planets,many continents, and many countries, my country Nigeria will never be like others.

~ Hamzatribah

Dear my little children I work hard so as to make your lives better. so don't rest until you do thesame to your own children.

~ Hamzatribah

Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things.

~ Carew Papritz

He's the King of all the heavensAnd all found here below.To Him, your hearts are like this lakeReflecting in His glow.

~ Alexis York Lumbard

Parenting has nothing to do with perfection. Perfection isn’t even the goal, not for us, not for our children. Learning together to live well in an imperfect world, loving each other despite or even because of our imperfections, and growing as humans while we grow our little humans, those are the goals of gentle parenting. So don’t ask yourself at the end of the day if you did everything right. Ask yourself what you learned and how well you loved, then grow from your answer. That is perfect parenting.

~ L.r. Knost

You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.

~ Katherine Rundell