Quotes About Children

My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.

I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there's one thing being a victor doesn't guarantee, it's our children's safety. My kids' names would go right into the reaping balls with everyone else's. And I swear I'll never let that happen.

They were both after all, still children whose lives were dictated by powers above them.

People were easy to manipulate when it came to their children. So pleased to see them pleased.

No saben qué, Katniss? ¿Que los tributos (que son los verdaderos niños de esta historia, no tu trío de raros) se ven obligados a luchar hasta morir? ¿Que ibas a la arena para entretener a la gente? ¿Era eso un gran secreto en el Capitolio?

It certainly supports her view of humanity. Especially using the children." "And why is that?" "Because we credit them with innocence. And if even the most innocent among us turn into killers in the Hunger Games, what does that say? That our essential nature is violent." "Self-destructive.

Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there's nothing you can do.

I wake screaming from nightmares of mutts and lost children. But his arms are there to comfort me. And eventually his lips.

But surely, you're not comparing our children to theirs?" asked Lucky. "One look tells you ours are a superior breed." "One look tells you ours have had more food, nicer clothing, and better dental care," said Dean Highbottom. "Assuming anything more, a physical, mental, or especially a moral superiority, would be a mistake. That sort of hubris almost finished us off in the war.

Al fin y al cabo, ambos eran niños cuyas vidas dependían de poderes superiores a ellos.

the music is provided by a choir of children accompanied by the lone fiddler

Who were all these people hanging around on a weekday at the zoo? Didn't they have jobs? Shouldn't the children be in school? No wonder the country was such a mess.

Everyone inside the barricade is a child. Toddlers to teenagers. Scared and frostbitten. Huddled in groups or rocking numbly on the ground. They aren't being led into the mansion. They're penned in, guarded on all sides by Peacekeepers. I know immediately it's not for their protection. If the Capitol wanted to safeguard them, they'd be down in a bunker somewhere. This is for Snow's protection. The children form his human shield.

A hovercraft marked with the Capitol's seal materializes directly over the barricaded children. Scores of silver parachutes rain down on them. Even in this chaos, the children know what silver parachutes contain.

prettying you up for slaughter?" he suggests. "It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children. They don't see . . . I mean, they don't know . . ." I get knotted up in my words. "They don't know what, Katniss?" he says. "That tributes — who are the actual children involved

They're medics. Rebel medics. I'd know the uniforms anywhere. They swarm in among the children, wielding medical kits.

Michael Collins, who laid the groundwork for this series with his deep commitment to educating his children on war and peace,

A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.

I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the fabric of an otherwise splendid garment I thought I could mend. I thought I could live with it—I thought, yes and I admit it, that I would be different. That at the very least, middle age and children would slow him down; however, they seemed to accelerate his pace.

no amount of money in the world can make up for parental absence. It's one of life's harshest realities.

The first and most important money lesson you need to teach your children is to put money in its place. Ask your children—even children as young as four or five—what they love most. Do not guide them, just listen to what they value.

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.

Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is.