Quotes About Children

when it's your own child, you are not a babysitter. It's called parenting.

I'm only keeping in touch with you for the sake of the children. Way to look after our son, by the way. I let you have him for the weekend and before I know it he's chained underground, awaiting Last Times and stinking of mead.

our children are not for us to keep, but to give away.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it's not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.

We are so lucky to have our children, even for a little while, but we take them for granted. We make the stupid assumption that as long as we are here, they will be, too, though that's never been part of the contract.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

If we are meant to only have children who never encounter difficulty in life, then no one should be born.

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask, 'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.

I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company.

It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

If there's one thing I learned as being a single father is to never bash the mother to your kid. Keep them out of it.

If you know deep inside the love isn't there anymore don't use the kids to stay together because in the end you both are hurting each other.

It is written: when children find true love, parents find true joy. Here's to your joy and ours, from this day forward.

The day when the elves finally go strike is the day when billions of school children cry.

Parents: I'm in a bad mood. I think I'll go yell at my kids so they're in a bad mood too.

Who are these kids and why are they calling me Mom?