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Quotes About Children

I take care of your children like the priceless jewels that they are and I don't expect a thank-you for my efforts. You never have to worry about our kids because you know no harm will come to them in my care. Do you have any idea what a burden I have taken off your shoulders? The ability to relieve another human being of worry and anxiety is the single greatest act of love one can do for another and I do it for you.
~ Adriana Trigiani
Elizabeth chuckled. Sometimes seeing a kid suffer the indignity of having to work gave parents a secret joy.
~ Adrianne Byrd
You are dreaming, children, dreams dearer than gold, more blest than the Blest beyond the North Wind's raging. Dreams are easy, oh, but the double lash is striking home.
~ Aeschylus
Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
Des soldats, des enfants-soldats se sont joints à eux. Tout ce monde s'est réuni, s'est mis en cercle, et ça a organisé un concert de pleurs. Tout ce monde s'est mis à pleurer. Un groupe de bandits de grand chemin, de criminels de la pire espèce, pleurer comme ça. Il fallat voir ça, ça valait le détour.
~ Ahmadou Kourouma
By her estimation, the woman had probably been five years old during the height of the war. Listening to panicked voices in the next room. The majority of the living memories now owned by then-children.
~ Aimee Bender
Having children is life's greatest joy. But there are some people, and maybe you are one of them, who don't like kids, and consider travel life's greatest joy. You shouldn't have kids. Don't have them.
~ Al Franken
Genius is children it lives in far Centaurus and star clusters beyond cold Orion and sometimes visits earth when there is no one home
~ Al Purdy
The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy from your parents, find a moderately satisfying job, form a relationship, perhaps raise some children, watch the onset of mortality in your parents' generation and eventually in your own, until one day a fatal illness starts gnawing at your innards and you calmly go to the grave, shut the coffin and are done with the self-evident business of life.
~ Alain de Botton
It is surely significant that the adults who feature in children's books are rarely, if ever, Regional Sales Managers or Building Services Engineers.
~ Alain de Botton
The real risk is that we will fall into depression and despair; the danger is that we will lose hope in the human project. It is this kind of despondency that art is uniquely well suited to correct. Flowers in spring, blue skies, children running on the beach . . . these are the visual symbols of hope.
~ Alain de Botton
The pursuit of personal happiness and the production of healthy children are two radically contrasting projects, which love maliciously confuses us into thinking of as one for a requisite number of years. We should not be surprised by marriages between people who would never have been friends
~ Alain de Botton
Ebeveynlerin sevgisi ve anlay??? yeterli olsa, insan olduÄŸu yerde sayar ve zamanla soyu tükenirdi. Türün hayatta kalmas?, çocuklar?n nihayetinde bundan b?kmas?na dayan?r. Daha tatmin edici sevgi ve heyecan kaynaklar? bulma umuduyla dünyaya at?lmalar?na baÄŸl?d?r.
~ Alain de Botton
peculiar, or sad, and yet still deserve a place within the circle of familial love. The parents would thus have created an invaluable wellspring of courage from which those children would eventually be able to draw to sustain the confessions and direct conversations of adult life. Rabih
~ Alain de Botton
Children may end up being the unexpected teachers of people many times their age, to whom they offer—through their exhaustive dependence, egoism, and vulnerability—an advanced education in a wholly new sort of love, one in which reciprocation is never jealously demanded or fractiously regretted and in which the true goal is nothing less than the transcendence of oneself for the sake of another. The
~ Alain de Botton
The Jews had holidays that turned up out of the blue and the Catholics had children in much the same way.
~ Alan Bennett
For a child a library needs to be round the corner. And if we lose local libraries it is children who will suffer.
~ Alan Bennett
I think the need for reading boils down to one simple issue: children are selfish. Reading about other people creates a sense of balance in a child's life. It gives them the knowledge that there is a world outside themselves. It tells them that the language they are learning at home is the key to unlocking the mysteries of the greater world.
~ Alan Bennett
The names Americans visit on their children never ceases to amaze me. One of Diana Ross' daughters labours under the name of Chudney.
~ Alan Bennett
Sulking in children and the periodic cabinet member.
~ Alan Bennett
it came to her that for some reason Norman was sulking. Behaviour she had seldom come across except in children and the occasional cabinet minister.
~ Alan Bennett
You are here to thrive as a soul. It will be a great day when we train children to pass SQ—spiritual quotient—tests. Then we will be teaching genuine intelligence that will advance humanity in the most important way.
~ Alan Cohen
You can still have children. We'll buy out your contract. You'll get everything you deserve. We owe you.' She wavered. 'You're not going to take it back?
~ Alan Dean Foster
In most children but in relatively few adults, at least in our time, we may see this willingness to be delighted to the point of self-abandonment. This free and full gift of oneself to a story is what produces the state of enchantment. But why do we lose the desire—or if not the desire, the ability—to give ourselves in this way?
~ Alan Jacobs