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Quotes About Children

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
~ Anthony Powell
Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.
~ Anthony Quinn
the despair displayed by young children on loss of their mother is a normal response to frustration of their absolute need for her presence ... children usually manage to survive, it is true, but at the cost of developing a defensive attitude to emotional detachment, and by becoming self-absorbed and self-reliant to an unusual degree. Typically, they are left with lasting doubts about their capacity to elicit care and affection.
~ Anthony Stevens
La langue n'a pas inventé de nom pour qualifier ceux qui sont privés de leurs enfants. En revanche, l'homme qui ne travaille pas est un chômeur.
~ Antoine Blondin
There are people whom even childrens literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter... it fell softly... softly... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very quiet.
~ Antonia Michaelis
MALLORCA.- Hijos del mar se llaman los hijos de las islas".
~ Antonio Gala
Tiene el padre entre las cejas un ceño que le aborrasca el rostro, un tachón sombrío como la huella de un hacha. Soñando está con sus hijos, que sus hijos lo apuñalan, y cuando despierta mira que es cierto lo que soñaba.
~ Antonio Machado
German soldiers made use of Stalingrad orphans themselves. Daily tasks, such as filling water-bottles, were dangerous when Russian snipers lay in wait for any movement. So, for the promise of a crust of bread, they would get Russian boys and girls to take their water-bottles down to the Volga's edge to fill them. When the Soviet side realized what was happening, Red Army soldiers shot children on such missions.
~ Antony Beevor
A child who is very close to own father is likely to grow up as a better person for the nation and the world than a kid who is too close to own mother.
~ Anuj Somany
A mother is so,so selfish that she even cooks the dish for her children only of her own liking only ,but asks them as what they want to have to merely see if their food demand matches with her wish.
~ Anuj Somany
A sensible celeb parents keep always own children away from media limelight,paparazzi and shutterbugs until those kids become adults to start own profession.
~ Anuj Somany
A sensible man with a wife often leads a miserable life, but living without own children is like a world full of boredom.
~ Anuj Somany
A woman is so selfish that in order to fulfill her wish of personal profit only or safeguard her vested-interest and secure high position, she may even poison the minds of her children against her own man or anyone as close one.
~ Anuj Somany
Better not to send the children in the school than to make them study and follow idiotic rule there of wearing mask-over-mouth and look like as monkey fool
~ Anuj Somany
Divorce is a duel force applied on the husband only. The first by which the he gives away own kids to his wife ruefully and the second by which he offers her alimony. It is for him double whammy.
~ Anuj Somany
Divorce or separation between the partners of a married couple never balances them equal because the mother who gets often the children is an actual rich and the father who even if he has money but no kids is a real poor and when anyone of them gets both the money and children is a truly a wealthy person.
~ Anuj Somany
Just because the males can't do an exhibition of their love towards the kids like the females, doesn't mean that a man can't have affection better than a woman towards the children.
~ Anuj Somany
Seek the opinion of the children only about a person whom they meet daily or regularly, but never about the people whose name they hear from their parents, radio and TV.
~ Anuj Somany
Spending a few minutes with the children is often better than chatting an hour over tea or coffee with an adult person
~ Anuj Somany
I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.
~ Arabella Weir
If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.
~ Arabella Weir
There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
~ Arabella Weir
I'm a firm believer the the first two tenets of effective child-rearing boil down to "spend a lot of time with your children" and "cherish them," because, one, they need you when they're growing, and, two, they're going to be up and gone before you realize it.
~ Archie Manning