CHILDREN QUOTES VIII

quotations about children

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


Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

BARBARA WALTERS

How to Talk with Practically Anybody About Practically Anything


I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

CHARLES LAMB

"A Bachelor's Complaint", Elia and the Last Essays of Elia


Motherhood is an early retirement position. Your children do grow up.

COLLEEN PARRO

PBS interview


Self-esteem is the real magic wand that can form a child’s future. A child’s self-esteem affects every area of her existence, from friends she chooses, to how well she does academically in school, to what kind of job she gets, to even the person she chooses to marry.

STEPHANIE MARTSON

The Magic of Encouragement


When the voices of children are heard on the green
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast
And everything else is still.

WILLIAM BLAKE

"Nurse's Song", Songs of Innocence


There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children she didn't know what to do;
She gave them some broth without any bread,
She whipped them all well and put them to bed.

ANONYMOUS

nursery rhyme


The very smallness of children makes it possible to regard them as marvels; we seem to be dealing with a new race, only to be seen through a microscope. I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree.

G. K. CHESTERTON

"A Defence of Baby-Worship,", The Defendant


I believe the children are the future... Unless we stop them now!

HOMER SIMPSON

"The Wandering Juvie", The Simpsons


It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness.

IRVIN D. YALOM

When Nietzsche Wept


Half the human race are taken out of the world as children. I think that proves God's great fondness for children as children.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful


A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

ALBUS DUMBLEDORE

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban


Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk


There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Most children feel immortal--they have no sense that they're ever going to die. For a child, even growing up is something that's barely comprehensible.

JOHN SAUL

Shadows


Our children are the only possessions we can take to heaven.

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

letter to Madame Louise Colet, Dec. 11, 1852


The pressures on children today were not good, it seemed to him. A frankness about sex and drugs, explicit newspapers, four-letter words tossed from the television. A different type of child, more knowing but less loveable, was being created.

GUY BELLAMY

The Man Who Won

Tags: Guy Bellamy


That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterward makes him a manager of life.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


A childless man is like a loose engine in a ship. A man must be bolted and screwed to the community before he can work well for its advancement; and there are no such screws and bolts as children.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit