Quotes About Children

To imagine that we are solely, or even primarily, responsible for the successes and failures of our children is a narcissistic myth.

Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

Children do not automatically grant us the authority to parent them just because we are adults, or just because we love them or think we know what is good for them or have their best interests at heart.

We liberate children not by making them work for our love but by letting them rest in it.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I'm tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

Life will become intolerable for a bearded man when children rise up out of the pavement at every step, and surround him with the loud shouts of "Beaver!"

I brought children into this dark world because it needed the light that only a child can bring.

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

Children are one third of our population and all of our future.

Santaclaus comes down the chimney on Christmas eve, and puts nuts, cakes, sugarplums, and pieces of money into hung stockings. In the morning, children take delight in the treasures!

Happy children! thus to flee Early to their home above! Happy those below, to be Upward drawn by chords of love!

Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car.

Now and again some anxious, troubled soul fears that fairy tales will harm the children. Children need fairy tales because they are the purest product of the highest kind of imagination. The lovely thing about them is exactly that they are so far removed from the actual world and so close to that better, fairer one where children dwell.

Nothin's as mean as givin' a little child somethin' useful fer Christmus.

As the father of two young girls, I have come to the realization that they are just as messy as boys but the dirt that they create around the house is comprised of at least 50% glitter.

Sorrow makes us all children again, — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.

Here's to Hope! — the child of Care, And pretty sister of Despair, Here's hoping that Hope's children shan't Take after their Grandma or Aunt!

I cannot blame them, in truth, for desiring... But they were like children, who have only just begun to grasp the idea of a thing. And like children, they had no notion of laboring to create, but only of having... and no thought given to the cost, to others, of taking it.

mothers have wept less, bidding farewell to their children. At least, mine certainly did.

I try to have reasonable 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.

Cook had made us a big veal-and-ham pie and a potato salad, with a fruit tart and the remains of the Christmas cake for dessert. The children got crumbs all over their clothes.

Jacqueline Wilson