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Quotes About Children

People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they're children.
~ Dean Koontz, Ashley Bell
Give your children big truths they will grow into rather than light explanations they will grow out of.
~ Tedd Tripp
Truth was such a tricky thing when it came to children. When was it good medicine and when was it poison
~ Jane Roper, Eden Lake
With all our reasons for living. Through our love and laughter, there's an unmistakable truth. The most valuable love in the world is a healthy relationship with our children.
~ Ron Baratono
No mother ever wants a war, they want to see their children grow up in peace, surrounded by love.
~ Debasish Mridha
God determines the goals of the prosperity before giving prosperity before giving prosperity to His children
~ Sunday Adelaja
There are no limitations to the children of God who desire to establish God's righteousness on this earth
~ Sunday Adelaja
Cleaning with children in the house really is like brushing your teeth while eating Oreos.
~ Joleigh Little
Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.
~ Fernando Pessoa
When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.
~ Mem Fox
Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.
~ Faith Hill
I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
~ Harry S. Truman
Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.
~ Lindsay Davenport
The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.
~ J. D. Salinger
Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?
~ Diane Abbott
I've watched Jamie Oliver 's Food Revolution, he wants better school lunches for children in the US and UK. In NZ, we want Kiwi kids to have school lunches!
~ Metiria Turei
Children need to see that they are assumed to be well-intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and who want reliable reactions from their elders to guide them.
~ Jean Liedloff
Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
~ James Dyson
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
~ Barack Obama
All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.
~ Harry Chapin
We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.
~ Norma McCorvey
The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand.
~ Fred Rogers