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Quotes About Children

The center of my life is my kids, I woke up at 3 in the morning with four kids with jet lag and two babies. I put myself together for a few hours and go out. And then I go home. This is my job.
~ Angelina Jolie
Together we can prevent genocide from happening again. Together we can make a better future for our children.
~ Dith Pran
Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.
~ Robert Breault
Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
You know, there's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.
~ Mark Wahlberg
My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Pero algunas lecciones hay que aprenderlas con el corazón también para entenderlas de verdad. Es muy fácil ser madre o padre antes de tener hijos.
~ Mary Balogh
Are they supposed to cry so much and giggle every second when they're not crying? They never quit finding something so funny that I thought it'd break my eardrums a few times.
~ Mary Connealy
In Texas, rocks are considered an adequate weaponry during schoolyard scuffles. Dallas children carry a brace of loaded pistols, a concealed Derringer, and a 6 inch Toadsticker in one boot. That's the girls of course. Boys bring howitzers to class.
~ Mary Doria Russell
The household was densely populated by a lively gang of children, homemade and Fostered, mix thoroughly and well.
~ Mary Doria Russell
The nations of the earth that most vigorously foul the planetary nest and those in possession of the most destructive arsenals ought to be governed only by young women with small kids. More than anyone else, such mothers must live in the future, and they also face each day the realities of raw human nature.. This gives them a special insight
~ Mary Doria Russell
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne's are worth asking. To ask them is a very fine kind of human behavior. If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.
~ Mary Doria Russell
No children? Emilio asked them one evening, to his own surprise. Nope. Turned out, we don't breed well in captivity, George said, unembarrassed.
~ Mary Doria Russell
To Robert, he wrote, In Texas, rocks are considered inadequate weaponry during school yard scuffles. Dallas children carry a brace of loaded pistols, a concealed Deringer, and a six-inch toadsticker in one boot. That's the girls, of course. Boys bring howitzers to class.
~ Mary Doria Russell
A prominent Christian journalist has confided that his biggest fear in life is that his own children will grow up to hate him, because they will believe the terrible things said about the faith in public these days. He
~ Mary Eberstadt
Exposed to the world for what she was; numbed with worry and fear; trying to answer the question... The same question the police had thrown at her over and over seven years ago.....Where are the Children?
~ Mary Higgins Clark
KIDS IN DISTRESSED FAMILIES ARE GREAT repositories of silence and carry in their bodies whole arctic wastelands of words not to be uttered, stories not to be told.
~ Mary Karr
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Mark Twain
~ Mary Karr
And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of civility, to teach them that they are (they are not) better than the grass.
~ Mary Oliver
What, precisely, will you grieve for? "For the river. For myself, my lost joyfulness. For the children who will not know what a river can be—a friend, acompanion, a hint of heaven.
~ Mary Oliver
Adults can change their circumstances; children cannot. Children are powerless, and in difficult situations they are the victims of every sorrow and mischance and rage around them, for children feel all of these things but without any of the ability that adults have to change them.
~ Mary Oliver
Adults can change their circumstances; children cannot. Children are powerless, and in difficult situations they are the victims of every sorrow and mischance and rage around them, for children feel all of these things but without any of the ability that adults have to change them. Whatever can take a child beyond such circumstances, therefore, is an alleviation and a blessing.
~ Mary Oliver
Annie kissed each of the little
~ Mary Pope Osborne
The tree house started to spin. It spun faster and faster. Then everything was still. Absolutely still. (Magic Tree House Series)
~ Mary Pope Osborne