Quotes About Children

It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.

The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.

What I do with my kids is I tell them I love them every day, but also I tell them the truth.

As children play games with imaginary things, initially a seeker indulges in little things. So simple people believe in simple things.

I have nothing against kids—as long as they go home with their parents at the end of the day.

the Popsicle Index, which ranks countries according to the percentage of people in a community who believe that their children can safely leave their home, walk to the nearest possible location to buy a popsicle, and walk back home again.

There was something stunned in the faces of the children, blinking and tentative. The slow, dark, dull submarine of the lives in which they were the human cargo had abruptly surfaced. Their blood was filled with a kind of crippling nitrogen of wonder.

Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents could not help but make. The Killer Hook

Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents could not help but make.

Anyone who has spent time in the company of small children knows that a crushing boredom can unlock great powers of invention.

She believed that it was important to put trust in children, to hand over the reins to them from time to time, to let them decide things for themselves.

Children did not abandon comics; comics, in their drive to attain respect and artistic accomplishment, abandoned children.

The truth is that comic-book creators have simply lost the habit of telling stories to children. And how sad is that?

Le facce dei bambini erano stupite, esitanti. Il lento, triste, oscuro sottomarino che trasportava il carico delle loro vite, era improvvisamente emerso in superficie. Nel loro sangue ora circolava disordinatamente l'azoto della meraviglia. Nessuno rideva o sorrideva, ma si sa che quando si divertono davvero, i bambini sono sempre seri.

he had come to believe that parents see their children not only as they are but as they hope they will be in the future. Happy, fulfilled, not afraid. When Maddie first came to live with him Bosch didn't have this vision right away, but soon enough he earned it. When he closed his eyes at night, he saw her older:

parents see their children not only as they are but as they hope they will be in the future. Happy, fulfilled, not afraid.

But before I left," Rider continued, "I learned enough to know that most often sexual abuse of children comes from inside the family, relatives or close friends. The boogey monsters who climb through the window and abduct are few and far between.

Kids are amazing, as long as they have the push in the right direction at home." Lourdes

he had come to believe that parents see their children not only as they are but