Quotes About Children

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

Small children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned...

He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.

You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

People's minds, particularly the minds of children, are like wells—deep wells full of sweet water. And sometimes, when a particular thought is too unpleasant to bear, the person who has that thought will lock it into a heavy box and throw it into that well. He listens for the splash . . . and then the box is gone. Except it is not, of course. Not really.

Children learn much more by mute example than by spoken rules, or so it seems to me.

The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful. The fears of children could often be summoned up in a single face... and if bait were needed, why, what child did not love a clown?

As soon as you have a child, you see your own tombstone

But listen to me, all three of you, n hear this if you don't hear nothing else: everything I did, I did for love . . . the love a natural mother feels for her children. That's the strongest love there is in the world, and it's the deadliest. There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.

Let this ground be seeded with salt, so that no stalk of corn, or stalk of wheat shall ever grow. Cursed be the children of this ground, and cursed be their loins. Also cursed be their hams and hocks. Hail Marry full of grace, let us blow this goddamn place.

You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it.

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.

It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, Here you are. Try not to lose it. But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to.

Sane people don't sacrifice children on the altar of probability. That's not science, it's superstition.

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don't we?

The little ones are the only good human beings.

Who is that trip-trapping upon my bridge?' Miss Davies spoke in the low, growling tones of the troll in the story. Some of the little ones covered their mouths and giggled, but most only watched her solemnly, accepting the voice of the troll as they accepted the voices of their dreams, and their grave eyes reflected the eternal fascination of the fairy tale: would the monster be bested . . . or would it feed?

There are miracles and glory in every child. Our glory lies in empowering them to flourish their glory.

Sacred gifts: life, nature, good health, strength, joy, prosperity of soul, children, family, friends….!

I am gazing-- desires unaware of destiny frisk about my mindscape like children.

It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.