Quotes about children

J.D. Salinger -

Men bore meWomen abhor meChildren floor meSociety stinks

Kirsty Dallas - Mother's Love

A day without your child is like a day without sunshine a month without your child is like a month without laughter a year without your child is like a year without your heart a lifetime without your child is like a lifetime without your soul…

Nilesh Rathod - Destiny of Shattered Dreams

Children are like water they don't much care where the stream takes them. They do nothing to avoid or follow the contours.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Mockery is not just the interest of children it is their second meal

Mehmet Murat ildan -

Watch the littlest kids carefully the biggest messages for the grown-ups are hidden there!

Rumer Godden - The Greengage Summer

I know now it is children who accept life grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.

Ankit Rawat -

The secret of happiness lies in the lifestyle of a child who lives in present past and future are only the grammar thing for him.

Debasish Mridha -

We like to see our future through our children they are the reflection of the best of ourselves.

Asa Don Brown -

The process of grief and loss is as unique as your personal DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) no two individuals will have the same experiences or relationship to grief.

Agona Apell - The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

Happy homes are filled with the noise of children unhappy homes the noise of their parents

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

God's greatest blessing gift of children.

Abi bin Abi Taleb -

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you they were born for a different time.


meenakshi ahlawat -

I do not have money to invest nor i have studied finance to be an investment banker but i would like to be an investor in the society by investing my love care and compassion in my children i think there will be a bank of bankable people

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.

Jodi Picoult - The Storyteller

No child really chooses his religion it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

For their holidays: the rich go see the world the poor go see their parents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job the retired pray for grandchildren.

Luther Burbank -

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion give them nature.

Sandra Chami Kassis -

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is we still bring children to life?

C.M. Stunich - Finding You

Train up a child in the way he should go even when he is old he will not depart from it.

M.F. Moonzajer -

Women and children make you weak get rid of them when you are in war.

Aaron B. Powell - Voluntary

I’m just happy to have experienced life to have had a beautiful son and to have loved.

C. JoyBell C. -

We not only need to have a deep respect for children but also a deep respect for the child in everyone.

Reif Larsen - The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.

J.M. Barrie - Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

He was a poet and they are never exactly grown-up.

C.J. Heck -

Children have such an innocent view of their world and surroundings every thought is a garden full of wonder.

Gregory Maguire - A Lion Among Men

Children played at those stories they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.

Fredrik Backman - Beartown

Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds parents need it to be able to get up the next morning.

Sheila Walsh - Loved Back to Life: How I Found the Courage to Live Free

Children are the best recorders of information - they miss nothing but they are the poorest interpreters.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu - Be Different

Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting Focus on the uniqueness of every Child.

Qwana Reynolds-Frasier - Friend In Your Pocket Conversations Session One

WORDS HAVE NO EXPIRATION DATE YOU CAN EAT THEM WHENEVER YOU WANT.SO BE SURE TO MAKE EM' YUMMY!

Qwana Reynolds-Frasier -

GOD SAYS YOU'LL NEVER LOSE A FIGHT THAT WASN'T FIXED!#HOPENATION

Honoré de Balzac - Cousin Bette

Parent may hinder their children's marriage but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.

Iben Dissing Sandahl - Resilient and Healthy Children through Play

Toys can be anything children can play all morning with a stone and a plastic bucket. It is about how imaginative conductive and how many applicative possibilities toys offer.

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.

William Shakespeare -

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes fathers that children with their judgment looked and either may be wrong

Marcia Fudge -

Promoting healthy lifestyles and encouraging fitness are so important for our children's development and reducing the nation's epidemic of childhood obesity.

Richard Simmons -

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

Matthew Desmond -

Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you're part of a community, and that is essential to having a stable home.

Matt Blunt -

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

Lucy Stone -

But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.

Rod McKuen -

We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on.

Jessie J -

Children used to get bullied at school. Now they go home, and that's where the problem starts - because they sit on their phones all night, thinking about who's 'liked' a photo of them, who hates them, who loves them. They don't know what's real and what's not, editing their lives constantly to fit other people's views.

Sheryl Sandberg -

It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

Steven Wright -

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

Sandra Cisneros -

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who's busy and has too many children, like my mother.

Caroline Corr -

I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

Carroll Shelby -

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent I had a pretty unhappy home life.

Marie Antoinette -

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Rachel Sklar -

In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, but now we're talking about it. And the more we talk about it, the more of us will realize that we're not going through it alone. Far from it.

Nancy Gibbs -

All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.

Perry Como -

Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today.

Rupert Murdoch -

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

Kelly Clarkson -

I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.'

Grace Slick -

'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.

Loni Love -

I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.

Robert Neelly Bellah -

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

Rachel Weisz -

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.

Benjamin Spock -

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

Debbie Ford -

Anger, if used properly, might be for a cause, like helping feed children or stopping abuse somewhere. When we understand that every quality has importance and value, then we open up to this. Shining a light on these shadow qualities gives it balance.

Francis Bacon -

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

Maria Montessori -

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

Maria Montessori -

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Hillary Clinton -

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

Brene Brown -

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Martha Beck -

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Michio Kaku -

Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.

Roseanne Barr -

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

Nora Ephron -

I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.

Coco Chanel -

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

H. P. Lovecraft -

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

Judith Viorst -

I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only knew her in one way: As the lady who thought they were smarter than Albert Einstein. As the lady who thought they wrote better than William Shakespeare. As the lady who thought every picture they drew was a Rembrandt.

Jakob Bohme -

We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal and its palpability taketh its original in the anger the eternal nature is its root.

Brian Sutton-Smith -

I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.

Susan Griffin -

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

T. Berry Brazelton -

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

Wilbur Smith -

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

Mitt Romney -

What's at the heart of my faith is a belief that there's a creator. That we're all children of the same God. And that, fundamentally, the relationship you have with your spouse is important and eternal.

Gordon Neufeld -

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

Joyce Carol Oates -

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

Jenny McCarthy -

I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?

Ramakrishna -

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

Democritus -

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Gene Fowler -

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

Khaled Hosseini -

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

James E. Faust -

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

Morris Gleitzman -

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.

Salman Rushdie -

When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

Alice Walker -

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman's normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

Monica Johnson -

Christian children should be taught at an early age that everything they receive is because of God's grace and love. They will grow up more appreciative and begin to understand that they, too, must have a relationship with Christ. Christian children should also be taught how to give.

Frans de Waal -

The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.

Christian de Duve -

The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.

Shirley Jones -

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

Michael Haneke -

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.

Jennifer Love Hewitt -

I'm a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that comes out.

Renzo Piano -

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.

Claire Tomalin -

Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.

Jewell Parker Rhodes -

I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

Mike Pence -

What is real is that adultery destroys tens of thousands of families every year across America. What is real is that adultery scars tens of thousands of children emotionally and psychologically every year. What is real is that adultery is an open wound in a relationship which more often than not overflows into domestic violence or worse.

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