Quotes About Children

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

I just know that, at that moment, I remember feeling like the world had turned itself inside out. 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.

There's this weird part about having kids—you know when your family is finished, and when it's not.

kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through. *

Often, with fragile witnesses or young children, they'd plant a person as a focal point to make testifying less scary. To make them feel that out of that whole crowd of people, they had at least one friend.

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

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

Children are not born with their hearts hardened in this fashion, not even Irish-Catholic children. They have to be taught by professionals.

Liquid calories, without the fiber present in the whole food, have little effect in blunting our caloric drive. Studies show that fruit juice and other sweet beverages lead to obesity in children as well.36

Incredible as it seems, high-calorie, trans-fat-filled french fries are the most common vegetable eaten by young children today.

One study showed that about 75 percent of parents gave up after five tries, while the research showed it took eight to fifteen times for children to accept a new food as familiar.

Most Americans are not aware that the diet they feed their children guarantees a high cancer probability down the road.13 They don't even contemplate that eating fast-food meals may be just as risky (or more so) as letting their children smoke cigarettes.14

This is especially relevant in light of a recent study of twelve thousand students between fifth and eighth grades that showed those who ate processed and fast foods had the worst skills in math, reading, and science.

The only true immortality lies in one's children. [ Letter to his friend, Richard Heuberger ]

Friendship with children unwraps their hidden potentials.

Friendship with children creates obedient people in society.

Friendship with children eliminates the propensity for suicide in society.

Friendship with children increases the pleasure of life.

Friendship with children is fundamental for seeing everything you want to see in them.

Friendship with children is the map for transferring to them anything you want them to have.

Friendship with children increases their love for themselves.

Friendship with children increases their love for others.

Friendship with children creates caring friends.

Friendship with children creates loving friends.