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Quotes About Children

LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.
~ A.E. Samaan
Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.
~ Eudora Welty
Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.
~ Lydia Millet
All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense.
~ Henry Fuseli
I've had two children and no surgery. My body is the result of good genes and a healthy attitude.
~ Elle Macpherson
The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle.
~ C. S. Lewis
We made an important decision regarding our family, and decided that we would bring them up as one family: sisters and brothers. Very simple. Not half or step or real, or whatever. They were our children, with no distinction as to who had arrived with whom, or how they were related (and it remains so to this day, not only to us, but to them).
~ Danielle Steel
It's about which of these kids has a moral compass, even if their parents don't
~ Danielle Steel
excuse never to get attached to anyone or tied down, except to my work. It would be a constant tug-of-war to be a married butler, or one with children. I know some people do it now, and live out
~ Danielle Steel
Nazis were raiding French homes, looking for Jewish children. The tragedy of the year before was that Jean Moulin, one of the famed
~ Danielle Steel
children, possibly irreparably, physically
~ Danielle Steel
they had grown up, their time had come. And best of all, it was real. To my beloved children, Beatie, Trevor, Todd, Nick, Sam, Victoria, Vanessa, Maxx, and Zara, May all your fairytales be real, May evil never touch you
~ Danielle Steel
Kids have strange loyalties.
~ Danielle Steel
but you never know with kids. They have strange loyalties for odd reasons
~ Danielle Steel
all mothers have to learn that—to let go of their children.  It always hurts, and then you reach that point where you have to let go of yourself, too.  Let go of yourself as a mother. That part is a surprise
~ Unknown
Some scientists hypothesize that having children is the only reason romantic love came about. It kept couples together long enough to mate and see a baby through infancy.
~ Daria Snadowsky
The Creator does not care what happens in this world, nobody has heard from Him since he marked Cain. We are alone. Orphaned children, cursed, to struggle by the sweat of our brow to survive !!
~ Darren Aronofsky
It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.
~ Darren Shan
If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.
~ Dave Barry
My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over a period of many years. This is why your parents started to get so stupid just at the time in your life when you were getting really smart.
~ Dave Barry
Early in the morning of October 8, 1991, Mrs. Florence A. Snegg of Uvula, Michigan, was having an extremely vivid dream in which her son, Russell, was involved in a terrible automobile accident. Suddenly she was awakened by the ringing of her telephone. On the line was a Missouri state trooper, calling long distance to remind Mrs. Snegg that she had never had children
~ Dave Barry
My Cuddle Time Bible Story Book Sleeping with Jesus Baby Bibles: Tall Tales for Tiny tots Everybody Poops (Except God)
~ Dave Eggers
I feel like a parent whose children prefer to stay inside and watch TV. The father pleads, It's a beautiful day. Why don't you go play outside? In this case, I feel like pleading, It's a completely spooky night. Forget the loud music--come outside and have a blood sacrifice or something! There's a full moon! (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)
~ Dave Eggers
Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons.
~ Dave Eggers