Children Quotes

Ginnetta Correli

Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them. Ginnetta
Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them

Marty Rubin

Children, like God, see only our actions.. Marty Rubin
Children, like God, see only our actions.

Guy Debord

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures.

Rumer Godden

I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The soul is healed by being with children.. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The soul is healed by being with children.

Karl Lagerfeld

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

Roman Payne

She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She
She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.

Roman Payne

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in
You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Roald Dahl

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Roman Payne

When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass.

Frank Warren

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

Dan Pearce

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Dan Pearce

Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?

Dan Pearce

Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.

Madeleine L'Engle

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Eudora Welty

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

Mignon McLaughlin

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

Piers Anthony

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Patty Smith

A lot of (children's literature) beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never be confused with a plot. You can't preach to kids, and you can't talk down to them, either. It's amazing how they sense condescension.

Diane Samuels

Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did?

Jennifer Elisabeth

Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.

Elizabeth George

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do..
Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you’ll ever do.

Hamzatribah

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.

Hermann Hesse

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A hundred years ago, an average teenager knew countless authors, and, a sex position or two. Today, an average teenager knows countless sex positions, and, an author or two.

Nikolas Lee

Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need.

Brook Tesla

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You're my ideal reader, friend, partner. I'm your fan.

Swami Dhyan Giten

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: 'He who sleeps here never gave us a moment of pain. From his lips, now dust, never came to us an unkind word.

Elizabeth George

Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love
Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord.

Barbara Samuel

Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the
Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.

Alexandra Katehakis

Above all, consider this: The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and our world is to live well and love well.

Suzanne Collins

I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there's one thing being a victor doesn't guarantee, it's our children's safety. My kids' names would go right into the reaping balls with everyone else's. And I swear I'll never let that happen.

Joan C. Williams

The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the United States is a single mother and her child.

R. N. Prasher

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world as you know it is in danger of collapsing

Wayne Chirisa

Dress well because you can; not because its a choice imposed you.

Trevor D. Richardson

Listen in close, Wall Street Conquistadors, you’re spreading like vapor up through people’s floors, you’re moving en masse under the cracks of our doors and grabbing our children to work in your stores, feeding the needy to make them your whores, but you need to remember the grave you’re digging is yours.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.

Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

Better to have a messy home and happy children than a perfect yard and unhappy children

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Neal A. Maxwell

Be careful, fathers, when you inordinately desire things to be better for your children than they were for you. Do not, however unintentionally, make things worse by removing the requirement for reasonable work as part of their experience, thereby insulating your children from the very things that helped make you what you are.

Cindi Madsen

The toddler started making this whine/moan noise while pawing at Tabitha. I know as a woman I'm supposed to have this innate love of babies, but the truth is, they kind of remind me of zombies. They stumble around, arms out, moaning. And if they get a hold of you, they suck the energy out of you.

Bruce Chatwin

The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

Bauvard

Use condoms; it’s wise not to gamble with your children's future.

Rea Erika Paraz Ebate

A parent's words maybe a little harsh and painful, but it will be their annoying redundant words of love and care that will mold us into a better person.

Bill Ayers

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

Anne Lamott

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

Ursula Hegi

That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and - in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love - you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.

Barbara Kingsolver

A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after-oh, that' s love by a different name.

Ambrose Bierce

Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Ray Romano

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

Jim Beaver

While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me for the first time. It sounded like 'All lub boo,' but I didn't care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries.

Stephen Colbert

America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

C. JoyBell C.

I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.

Angela Schwindt

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

Craig Ferguson

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Thomas Stephen Szasz

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

Diane Setterfield

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

Bruno Bettelheim

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

Mitch Albom

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

Unknown Author

I have no greater joy than to know that my children walk in truth.

Mitch Albom

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

Tedd Tripp

Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.

Jane Roper

Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Mortimer J. Adler

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.

Rebecca Eanes

When you've had one call after another and your little one is tugging on your shirt, remember what really matters. When the milk is splattered all over the floor and those little eyes are looking at you for your reaction, remember what really matters. It takes 5 minutes to clean up spilled milk; it takes much longer to clean up a broken spirit.

Gregory Maguire

Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing - by dint of ignorance and innocence - that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.

Brian P. Cleary

Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while.

John Steinbeck

Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age?
Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?

E.L. Konigsburg

I've been the oldest child since before you were born

Unknown Author

Wisdom is justified by all her children.
Luke 7:35

Anne Holm

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

Simon Van Booy

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

John Holt

Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives.

Diane Samuels

Cheer up and give them out there a good reason to be happy.

Elizabeth Goudge

The very old and the very young have something in common that makes it right that they should be left alone together. Dawn and sunset see stars shining in a blue sky; but morning and midday and afternoon do not, poor things.

Scott Hastie

Every new day
Our children's joy is as fresh as roses,
Even the birds chatter at dawn.

Adhitya Mulya

Anak-anak kita, bukan pengorbanan saya. Mereka, pemberian.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Charles Alexander Eastman

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

Ransom Riggs

She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting.

Anderson Cooper

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

Terry Pratchett

You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'
IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.
IT'S EDUCATIONAL.
'What if she cuts herself?'
THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.

Nancy E. Turner

[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

Erik H. Erikson

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Darnell Lamont Walker

What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed

Lionel Shriver

Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?

Fulton J. Sheen

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

Louisa May Alcott

In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.

Anne Lamott

Every Sunday I nudge Sam in her direction, and he walks to where she is sitting and hugs her. She smells him behind the ears, where he most smells like sweet unwashed new potatoes. This is in fact what I think God may smell like, a young child's slightly dirty neck.

Lisa Bedrick

To all you parents out there, don't make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Children of God, Children of the light.

Elizabeth George

Praying for your children is the most powerful way you can care for them.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What parent can give to their children is the gift of daily prayer.

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