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Quotes About Children

I'm also the father of three beautiful children and I've been married to my wife for 18 years, and we've been together for 20 years, so I have a very tender side.
~ Greg Bryk
I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids! :)
~ John Petrucci
Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable, my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't.
~ Kola Boof
One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
~ Martin Amis
[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.
~ Michael J. Fox
To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away.
~ Patti Smith
I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.
~ Peter Jackson
I always thought I would have boys, but as a father, when your kids are born and they're healthy and happy, that's the most important thing.
~ Rob Mariano
Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child.
~ Sam Brownback
I don't know about marriage as much as I do know that I'd be a great father.
~ Tyler Perry
Fear of corporal punishment obscures children's awareness of the compassion underlying the parent's demands.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
~ Francis Bacon
Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children... it is that they might be alright alone.
~ Merrit Malloy
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them
~ Bruno Bettelheim
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.
~ John Locke
... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
~ Lucretius
It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.
~ Karl Kraus
Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
~ Bill Dedman
When life gets you down, just look at your kids and see what life has given you.
~ Unknown
My children are the source of my strength, frustration, happiness, insanity, sanity, irritability. They are the definition of unconditional love.
~ Unknown