Quotes About Children

atheism" ... reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogy man. Marx, Letter to 30 November 1842

Kids are like farts in that way. They never seem to bother the owner as much as they bother everyone else.

People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?

People say having kids is life changing, well that doesn't necessarily mean a good thing, does it? I could take one of my legs off. That would change me life.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things. There are too many Judes and Tesses and Clarissas and Cordelias around. If we must name our children after literary figures then we should search out happy ones, although it's true they are much harder to find.

Across the world millions of lives are altered by the absence of the dead, but three members of Teddy's last crew—Clifford the bomb-aimer, Fraser, the injured pilot, and Charlie, the tail-end Charlie—all bail out successfully from F-Fox and see out the rest of the war in a POW camp. On their return they all marry and have children, fractals of the future.

If he hadn't been the father of her children, Viola might have admired Dominic for the way he was so easily able to absolve himself of all obligation simply by asserting his right to self-fulfilment.

Pamela produced placid babies. They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, she said.

He could hardly beat them up, they were still – technically – children and he preferred to restrict his acts of violence to people old enough to fight for their country.

After he was born, the midwife said, "Boys wreck your house, girls wreck your head." Archie seemed intent on doing both.

She remembered holding Pamela's babies – remembered Teddy and Jimmy, too – how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be if it were her own child? Perhaps too strong to bear. Over

He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

A man can be a parent without knowing it: a woman cannot.

Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.

Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

With children use force; with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.

We are the children of the Rastaman we are the children of the higher man