Quotes About Children

our children live or die with or without us. No matter what we do, no matter how we agonize or obsess, we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It is a devastating realization, but also liberating. I finally chose life for myself. I chose the perilous but essential path that allows me to accept that Nic will decide for himself how—and whether—he will live his life.

I also know that parents have discretionary recall, blocking out everything that contradicts our carefully edited recollections - an understandable attempt to dodge blame. Conversely, children often fixate on the indelibly painful memories, because they have made a stronger impression

we cannot choose for our children whether they live or die. It is a devastating realization, but also liberating. I finally chose life for myself. I chose the perilous but essential path that allows me to accept that Nic will decide for himself how—and whether—he will live his life.

kids come along with me when I drive down the

it has sunk in and I now know it emotionally. My children will live with or without me. It is a staggering realization for a parent, but one that ultimately frees us to let our children grow up.

Nationwide, any child can pray to any god they wish at any time, so why do we need organized prayers in schools? To pressure those who don't want to pray into doing so, and for no other reason.

So you're saying that having kids is what it's all about and once you've had them you start waiting to die?

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

it is impossible not to feel a kind of sickness at the thought that the government stole Indian land in order to fund the theft of Indian children.

Mi padre me enseñó que un padre puede llorar delante de sus hijos, que eso otorga un valor a las lágrimas que los niños no conocen, porque los lloros infantiles son siempre caprichosos, intrascendentes, oportunistas. Pero las lágirmas de un padre son de plomo

Los políticos, como los niños, tienden a mentir como primera reacción. Es natural. La mentira es un manto que resguarda en primera instancia. Pero la verdad es terca y muerde con dientes afilados.

My poor mother," Douglass wrote, "like many other slave women, had many children, but NO FAMILY!"21

Adults always ask kids how they are doing at school. The one subject kids absolutely hate talking about. You don't even want to talk about school when you are at school.

My name is Mr Bread." He began writing his name neatly on the board. "But you can call me Peter." Suddenly there was quiet, as thirty little brains whirred. "Pita Bread!" proclaimed a ginger-haired boy from the back.

David Walliams

The Midnight Gang

David Walliams

Technically speaking, that means there was a lot of wee and poo in it.)

The dentist followed the children's gaze and fixed her eyes on Alfie. "Oh yes, I thought it might be you…" Miss Root's long, thin, gnarled finger pointed straight at him. "You, boy. Come to Mummy…" When Alfie's shaking legs finally propelled him to the front of the hall, he looked into the dentist's eyes for the first time. Miss Root's eyes were black. Blacker than oil. Blacker than coal. Blacker than the blackest black.

David Walliams

The maggots will nibble off the dirt, you muck snipes!" Mrs Curdle would snigger. To dry off afterwards, she would peg the children to the washing line by their ears. TWANG! Once, when Elsie was found with a pet rat in her pocket that she had befriended, Mrs Curdle used it as a ball in a game of cricket. THUD! "EEEEEK!" WHIZZ!

David Walliams

David Walliams

The porter lowered his head, and the other children exchanged nervous looks. It was clear this lady intimidated them all too. With a flick of her hand, Matron brushed the porter aside, and he stumbled a little to steady himself. "Let me look at this bump," she said as she peered over the boy. "Mmm, yes, that is a nasty bump. You should have an X-ray first thing in the morning." The porter rolled his eyes at Tom, but once again the boy didn't react.