Quotes About Children

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

Diem regarded the Americans as 'great big children – well-intentioned, powerful, with a lot of technical know-how, but not very sophisticated in dealing with him or his race'.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Small children are convinced that ponies deserve to see the inside of the house.

Ljudi su zla djeca. Zla po ?inu,djeca po pameti. I nikada ne?e biti druga?iji.

Ljudi su zla djeca, zla po ?inu, djeca po pameti. I nikad ne?e biti druk?iji.

Sve se izmijeni kad padne tama. Za grijeh nije ostavljeno jedno odre?eno doba, ali je njegovo prirodno vrijeme no? (sad spavaju pametna mala i tupava velika djeca, i oni što stignu da svrše zlo za dana). I uvijek kad se ne vidi.

And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her

And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her

I hardly saw Osbert that week because he went to school, unlike Isaac and Edmond and Piper, who were supposed to be homeschooled, which as far as I could tell meant reading whatever books you happen to be interested in, and every once in a blue moon having Aunt Penn say Have you learned any geography? and them saying yes.

You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried to see them off into life and hoped that the little piece of time you'd given them was enough to prevent them from one day feeling lonely and afraid and hopeless. You wouldn't know the outcome for a long time.

And the child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

Having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children, you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations.

The summits were about ambitious topics, such as, recently, leadership—leadership being something that everyone now wanted, as if the world could be made up entirely of leaders and no followers, the way children might crave an all-fireman, all-ballerina society.

This one says they'll place your 'little blessing in disguise' with a local 'Christ-oriented family.' What about the non-Christ-oriented families? Don't they deserve the right to adopt kids?

Mother gave a flick of a glance at the fork in Tori's hand. "Children without manners are a wound in a mother's side.

Squeenk! Ribbet!

If the desire to have children is just a way to build some noisy tribe of distraction around oneself, then I'd rather be alone.

Children can be wicked, insane, insufferable little shits. And yet I love them. I love them—especially the small ones—because of the way their emotions dance and glow on the surface for all to see. They have neither the guile nor the wile to hide how they feel. Very quickly, you know who they really are. (Rosemary Mahoney)

if it's so far been our biological situation that we're the ones stuck bearing the children, then there should be a lot more social recompense and reparations for this inequity than there are. The reason these have been slow in coming? Because women keep forgetting to demand them

When I pointed out to her that he'd like the wedding to include his sister's small children, she told me he had to realize he couldn't always get what he wanted.

Children exhaust us, even the ones we love most. Our solitude is the most valuable thing we have, and we cherish it above most other things and work hard to maintain it.