Quotes About Children

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!

maybe she just doesn't like children. Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.

How stark everything became, at the end, all the wishes for one's children distilled by the world's swift cruelty into the desperate hope that death would take them fast.

Mary adored her mother with a hopeless affection, like an unrequited crush. She understood this feeling was common in middle children, as Mary was, but there was also a story.

I will give you childhood, so that you might know innocence. Age, so you will know the prize of youth. Children, so that you will care for the future. Toil, so that you will know the value of a day. The body's failings, so that you will know its worth. Death, so that you will cherish the bittersweet beauty of life.

It's children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust.

and stepped into the hall, sealing the door and the voices of the children behind her. A blast of quiet that felt like noise;

It's children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust. A

It's children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust.

So why do males and females mate?" Rina asked, distracting Califa from a rather disturbing revelation. "Sometimes for children, of course," Califa began stalling. Rina gave her the look that comment deserved.; if children were the intent of every mating that occurred, the entire system would be overrun with them.

I don't think they're terrible parents. They love us. I think they're negligent parents. That's not the same thing.

are children of the Father by virtue of our existence; trapped in Time we may be, but our Father loves us and He will find us.

Because I write contemporary, magical realism and speculative for both children and adults, I spend a lot of time thinking about real settings for the contemporary books and the pieces that could be taken from those places to create fantasy spaces. But I also like to look for the magic in the real world…

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Robert often displayed a sense of humor. Upon seeing Karl Compton's two-year-old daughter pretending to read a small red book—which just happened to be on the topic of birth control—Robert looked over at the very pregnant Mrs. Compton and quipped, "A little late.

The greatest joy a parent can have and an affirmation of being an outstanding role model is when your child tells you she wants to be just like you. So be the most outstanding you because when you become a parent one day, your children will be proud to be just like you. - Kailin Gow on Life, Balance, Parenting, and Being a Role Model

What can I say?" he says when I ask him back at the beach house about it. "I just know how to get along with kids." Rachel, who's sitting at the kitchen table, snorts. "Mostly because you never grew up.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Ah... I hope my final wish may be granted. Because soon I will vanish from this world. Struggling desperately to live... these children cry out. Somehow I must protect them. Though I don't even know who to pray to. Somehow... Somehow... I want them not to forget.