Quotes About Children

They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.

I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father. (Daenerys)

Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

Jon, did you ever wonder why the men of the Night's Watch take no wives and father no children?'' Maester Aemon asked. Jon shrugged. ''No.'' He scattered more meat. The fingers of his left hand were slimy with blood and his right throbbed from the weight of the bucket. ''So they will not love'' the old man answered ''for love is the bane of honor, the death of duty

Trueborn children are made in a marriage bed and blessed by the Father and the Mother, but bastards are born of lust and weakness.

The wind cut like a knife up here, and shrilled in the night like a mother mourning her slain children.

Bastard children were born from lust and lies, men said; their nature was wanton and treacherous." — Jon Snow

Shadow?" Davos felt his flesh prickling. "A shadow is a thing of darkness." "You are more ignorant than a child, ser knight. There are no shadows in the dark. Shadows are the servants of light, the children of fire. The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows.

They were all around him, half a dozen of them, white-faced children with dark eyes, boys and girls together. And in their hands, the daggers.

So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means? It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded (...) and to bear children for the king.

Did you ever wonder why Spot runs so much? He's running away from Dick and Jane and Sally, the dullest family in the world.

The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.

No mother loves all her children the same, not even the Mother Above.

A daughter." Brienne's eyes filled with tears. "He deserves that. A daughter who could sing to him and grace his hall and bear him grandsons. He deserves a son too, a strong and gallant son to bring honor to his name. Galladon drowned when I was four and he was eight, though, and Alysanne and Arianne died still in the cradle. I am the only child the gods let him keep. The freakish one, not fit to be a son or daughter.

These wolves are more than wolves, Robb. You must know that. I think perhaps the gods sent them to us. Your father's gods, the old gods of the north. Five wolf pups, Robb, five for five Stark children.

Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.

You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.

Il fango ti può nutrire, mentre il fuoco ti ridurrà in cenere, ma i folli, i bambini e le fanciulle scelgono sempre il fuoco. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.

What do I have? A life to live? Work to do? Children to raise, lands to rule, a woman to love? "You have nothing," finished Magister Illyrio, "but we can change that.

In Sansa's dreams, her children looked just like the brothers she had lost. Sometimes there was even a girl who looked like Arya.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

Or perhaps Siri's programmers included parents who anticipated their children's unauthorized use of their mobile devices—trust me, a four year old can use an iPhone better than most adults):