Children Quotes

It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.

It isn't just children who need heros.

I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart i...

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell ...

I pray for my children. That they stay safe and make good decisions. That they be happy, thoughtful,...

Yes, but nomes aren’t hard to make,” said Dorcas. “You just need other nomes.” “You’re weird.

Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their waywar...

You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NO...

As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, pick...

Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, atbirthday parties. Her brother...

Magrat liked to think she was good with children, and worried that she wasn’t. She didn’t like them ...

How real can your music be if you wake up in the morning hearing birds and crickets? I never hear bi...

To all who have known really happy family lives, that is, to all who have known or who have witnesse...

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better tha...

Why do you talk all the time?” I asked. It was a rhetorical question, but she cocked her head on one...

I thumped her on the back, picked her up and dropped her on top of her dungarees. “Put them pants on...

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer app...

Done because we are too many.

I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before th...

Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?

But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there...

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in pe...

Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righte...

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as...

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attr...

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. T...

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married wit...

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fea...

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in ...

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and...

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who ga...

The best thing she was, was her children.

Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child th...

Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning n...

Small animals are a great problem. I wish God had never created small animals, or else that He had m...

All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you...

The creative adult is the child who survived after the world tried killing them, making them grown u...

My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.

He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capa...

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

In the morning, when he entered my room, I grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the sam...

Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.

Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling beganto affect the netting under w...

I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud, as I think it's a positive message to give to ...

My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.

I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If th...

From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the count...

The great cathedral space which was childhood.

No, she thought, putting together some of the pictures he had cut out - a refrigerator, a mowing mac...

...it struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their sp...

What was she dreaming about, Mrs. Ramsay wondered, seeing her engrossed, as she stood there, with so...

Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to ...

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their ow...

I like children - fried.

I like children. If they're properly cooked.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

There are good books which are only for adults.There are no good books which are only for children.

How silly men were! Their part in procreation was so unimportant; it was the woman who carried the c...

How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on...

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up...

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues he...

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their o...

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the...

Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never go...

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a ...

People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For ...

Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's o...

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them m...

There was a basic harmony between Antonia and her mistress [Mrs. Harling]. They had strong, independ...

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, ...

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults...

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in eve...

Girls say to me, very reasonably, 'why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bun...

This island has no secrets, not from me. It loves me, and I love it, and when I paint my face I'm a ...

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came int...

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief t...

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives...

The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves expe...

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.

They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a w...

When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But childr...

He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, althou...

More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.

Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse - harmony at its ...

As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my childre...

The children mingled with the adults, and spoke and were spoken to. Children in these families, at t...

The instinct to tell our children that they are better than someone else’s children, based on nothin...

Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there ...

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taug...

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatur...