CHILDREN QUOTES IV

quotations about children

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk


The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children.

ROBERTO BOLAÑO

2666


Alligators have the right idea ... they eat their young.

IDA CORWIN

Mildred Pierce


A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.

WALT DISNEY

Deeds Rather Than Words


Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency


We know not what the child may become.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Some people never learn how to talk to kids. They turn up the volume and enunciate with extra care, as if talking to a partially deaf immigrant. They sound as if they're reading lines somebody else wrote for them, or as if what they're saying is really for the benefit of other adults listening and not just for the child. Kids sense that and turn off.

F. PAUL WILSON

The Tomb


My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.

ADRIENNE RICH

Of Woman Born


Boys have a period of mischief as much as they have measles or chicken-pox.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.

DOUG LARSON

attributed, Quotable Quotes: Wit and Wisdom from the Greatest Minds of Our Time


Families with babies, and families without babies, are so sorry for each other.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings


The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.

EUGENE IONESCO

Present Past / Past Present


Children are the only brave philosophers. And brave philosophers are, inevitably, children.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

We


When people talk about wanting to "have children someday," what they really mean is that they want babies. Nobody wants an angry adolescent. Nobody wants an obnoxious seven-year-old trying to wear out dirty words they just learned in school that day. What they really want is cute, adorable babies who love you and need you. The bad stuff is just the price you agree to pay for having the good stuff.

PAUL REISER

Babyhood


Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

RAY ROMANO

stand-up routine


Children see magic because they look for it.

CHRISTOPHER MOORE

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal


Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.

GARRISON KEILLOR

Leaving Home


It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Little Men


Keep thou an open door between thy child's life and thine own.

MAUD LINDSAY

"The Closing Door", Mother Stories