CHILDREN QUOTES VII

quotations about children

She not only loves her children, she respects them. They have wills, tastes, thoughts, judgments of their own, and this is as she wishes it to be. She distinguishes clearly between counsel and command: command must be obeyed; counsel may be disregarded without rebuke and without loss of favor.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Home Builder


Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him.

KEVIN LEMAN

Have a New Kid by Friday


How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Harkonnen


A child is a deep mystery. It has a life of its own, which it reveals to no one unless it meets with sympathy. Snub its first halting confidences concerning the inner life, or laugh at them, or be cross or indifferent, and you close the door against yourself forever.

AMELIA E. BARR

All the Days of My Life


It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

CHARLES DICKENS

Master Humphrey's Clock


A child is a priest of the ordinary, fulfilling a sacred office that absolutely no one else can fill. The simplest gesture, the ephemeral movement, the commonest object all become precious beyond words when touched, noticed, lived by one's own dear child.

MIKE MASON

The Mystery of Children


A person with no children says, "Well I just love children." And you say "Why?" And they say, "Because a child is so truthful. That's what I love about 'em...they tell the truth." That's a lie! I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.

BILL COSBY

Bill Cosby: Himself


The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.

MAXIM GORKY

"Creatures that Once were Men"


There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

attributed, Pearls of Wisdom


Children, no matter how gifted, can't see far into the future, you know. To them, a year is almost a lifetime, and telling them that things will be fine when they grow up does no good at all.

JOHN SAUL

Shadows


Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods


Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays


Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

BILL COSBY

Fatherhood


A child is an uncut diamond.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Children keep a family together, especially when one can't get a babysitter.

FREDERICK SHEPPERD

Electricity on the Farm


Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects; they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others; already they are men.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of Mankind"


It is important to communicate to children about what we are going through. We often speak in half truths. We don't frame the truth or explain our experience in terms they can understand. We need to take time to do this. What has to happen is that more people have to get involved with more children. Focus energy on the child. Children are raising themselves these days in all sorts of strange ways.

JAMES REDFIELD

interview, Edge Magazine, Jun. 1, 1994


We can't control everything thing our kids do. Sooner or later they're just gonna do what they're gonna do. They're like people that way.

ROSEANNE BARR

"Bird is the Word", Roseanne


If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


Children are a comfort to men because the youngsters cannot contradict them.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims