Children Quotes

Tell me,' the man leans forward ans says, 'have you heard of a lady called Madeleine? No? In 1996, this lady named Albright Madeleine, the US ambassador to the United Nations, was asked on television how she felt about the fact that five hundred thousand Iraqi children had died as a result of US economic sanctions? Do you know what she said? She said that it was a very hard choice but we think the price is worth it. These are her exact words. How do you feel about that?'How do you think I feel about that? And I would take your love for children more seriously if you didn't have children cleaning your floors.

~ Nadeem Aslam

You need a husband and some babies to look after. Otherwise you're going to grow up into a virago...

~ Lindsay Armstrong

How great inexperience and innocence is. On the authority of their parents they go to a place where they could meet their death; for the Zirder in flood is very dangerous and, given the ignorance of the children, can be incalculably dangerous. But they know nothing of death. Even if they speak its name, they do not know its essence and their aspiring life has no feeling for annihilation. If they were on the brink of death themselves, they would not know it and they would die before they found it out.

~ Adalbert Stifter

For gypsies do not like to stay -They only come to go away.

~ Ludwig Bemelmans

Children must be taught that they are worth being heard, being saved and being loved.

~ C. Joybell C.

Never tell a child that something it’s too hard

~ Mitch Albom

The children mingled with the adults, and spoke and were spoken to. Children in these families, at the end of the nineteenth century, were different from children before or after. They were neither dolls nor miniature adults. They were not hidden away in nurseries, but present at family meals, where their developing characters were taken seriously and rationally discussed, over supper or during long country walks. And yet, at the same time, the children in this world had their own separate, largely independent lives, as children. They roamed the woods and fields, built hiding-places and climbed trees, hunted, fished, rode ponies and bicycles, with no other company than that of other children.

~ A.s. Byatt

There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child.

~ Anne Lamott

Christians are famous for telling people to be child-like and yet one of the greatest qualities of a child (the never ending list of questions) is often discouraged.

~ D.r. Silva

Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘support’ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures … in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.

~ Ashley Ormon

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

~ Marianne Williamson

Papas should be loving their children so much that they cry when they gone. That’s what papas is supposed to do.

~ Andrew Galasetti

Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption … without the paperwork.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We must return to optimism in our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

~ Fred G. Gosman

To know what should be going on in a household: spend a few minutes with the wife, or, the husband. To know what’s really going on: spend a few minutes with their kid(s).

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Do whatever you must do to protect your children and wife.

~ Andrew Galasetti

Men marry for the womb. Women marry for their tummy.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

~ Ed Asner

Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.

~ Erica Bauermeister

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is, we still bring children to life?

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

It was interesting. Isabelle thought, the children that chose you. Some come through your body; others came in cars in the middle of the night.

~ Erica Bauermeister

There would be times in the years to come when he ( Murphy ) would accompany me back and forth between the two worlds I'd come to know. Other times, Yipes would venture out over the water, and even Matilda came along once. There were loads of clothes and seeds and jars of honey and other such things cramping our space, and children of every age moving between the pillars and The Land of Elyon. And always, always, there was Marco at the pedals, helping guide the way across the Lonely Sea. I have yet to venture off the course that was set for me by Sir Alistair Wakefield, but I see certain things on the old maps that make me curious. Are there other places to explore, somewhere in the immeasurable reaches of the Lonely Sea? Maybe my own children or their children will find these strange spots on the map. My way is set an in stone, and I don't feel the need to veer off any longer. It has taken many days of searching and fighting, but in the end I have found what I was looking for. I have found my way home.

~ Patrick Carman

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

~ Phoebe Stone

He says that we must protect our families no matter what. No matter what we got to do to protect them.

~ Andrew Galasetti

Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up.

~ Andrew Galasetti

Single moms: You are a doctor, a teacher, a nurse, a maid, a cook, a referee, a heroine, a provider, a defender, a protector, a true Superwoman. Wear your cape proudly.

~ Mandy Hale

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

~ Ray Bradbury

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

~ Sydney J. Harris

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

~ Orson Scott Card

Religion- made by men to rule women, children and idiots!

~ Vardan Hambardzumyan

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.

~ Alice Munro

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare. And it is desperately unfair to the boy. He cannot live his parents' life over again for them. He cannot make up for their own lacks, their own unfulfillments. He cannot carry their torch -- only his own.

~ Sydney J. Harris

From the time he was young, he dressed the way you told him to dress; he acted the way you told him to act; he said the things you told him to say. He's been listening to somebody else tell him what to do... He hasn't changed. He is still listening to somebody else tell him what to do. The problem is, it isn't you any,ore; it's his peers.

~ Barbara Coloroso

But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.

~ Orson Scott Card

Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry that I don't add up nearly so well, that I'm just a shadowed reflection of them. Now that question hounds me a lot more often than I like to admit.

~ Cooper Davis

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

~ Marilyn Jager Adams

Girls mature faster than boys, cost more to raise, and statistics show that the old saw about girls not knowing about money and figures is a myth. Girls start to outspend boys before puberty—and they manage to maintain this lead until death or an ugly credit manager, whichever comes first. Males are born with a closed fist. Girls are born with the left hand cramped in a position the size of an American Express card. Whenever a girl sees a sign reading, “Sale, Going Out of Business, Liquidation,” saliva begins to form in her mouth, the palms of her hands perspire and the pituitary gland says, “Go, Mama.” In the male, it is quite a different story. He has a gland that follows a muscle from the right arm down to the base of his billfold pocket. It's called “cheap.” Girls can slam a door louder, beg longer, turn tears on and off like a faucet, and invented the term, “You don't trust me.” So much for “sugar and spice and everything nice” and “snips and snails and puppydog tails.

~ Erma Bombeck

And the end of this paradox is that only when the child is thus free can he have the proper attachment to his parents; only when we allow his independence can he then freely offer us love and respect, without conflict and without resentment. It is the hardest lesson to learn that the goal of parenthood is not to reign forever but to abdicate gracefully at the right time.

~ Sydney J. Harris