Quotes About Children

What do you mean? I don't know what you're asking me. I don't remember what I am. I am what I dream. I am what I hope for. I am what I don't remember. I am what other people want me to be. I am what my kids want me to be. I am what mom wants me to be. I am what you want me to be. What do you want me to be? Don't we need to stick around to find out what we are? What do you want me to be? Oh I don't

Tal y como yo lo veo, lo que hemos decidido las mujeres es que queremos, y creemos merecer, tres cosas. ¿Cuáles?, pregunta Greta. Mariche dice: Queremos que nuestros hijos estén seguros. Ha empezado a llorar en silencio y está costándole hablar, pero continúa. Queremos ser fieles a nuestra fe. Queremos pensar.

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

There is no experience like having children.' That's all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.

It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?

After the Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after them and were drowned. God's angels wanted to celebrate the enemy's demise. God saw this and grew angry. He said, in essence, 'Stop celebrating. For they are my children,too.

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

Children wonder at the world. Parents wonder at their children's wonder. In so doing, we are all together young.

Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work." —Dr. John Trainer

When love dries in a marriage, the children become mortar for the bricks. When the children leave, the bricks just sit atop each other. When the children die, the bricks tumble.

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?' Rose chuckled. But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.

Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

This is the disarming power of children: their need makes you forget your own.

because children, especially sick children, have a toughness unique to their young souls, one that can comfort even the fretting adults around them.

Sometimes the children asked Eddie to lift them over his head, and when Eddie complied, he saw the mothers' sad smiles: He guessed it was the right lift but the wrong pair of arms.

But daughters have their own lives. You can't smother them. She'll get married. Have children.

You should never construct a lie based on a child's questions. It is like writing music based on cymbal crashes.

If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

Well, when people get married, they share the love of a couple. But when children arrive, they create another love, not just for the new additions, but for the new entity they have created. The family. It is not better than a couple's love, it's complementary, forged with a new appreciation, and a wider, expansive heart.

When my mother entered, wearing her nurse's outfit, her arms full of magazines, we must have said, "Hi Mom" too quickly, because she immediately became suspicious. You can see that in your mother's face right away, that "What did you kids do?" look.

So," she said, moving away, "now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

Is it like Pope John XXIII once said, that it's easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father?

There is no experience like having children. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in deepest way, then you should have children.