1,512 Quotes About Child

38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and warned me not to forget it. I remember his words but never did figure out what he meant!)

They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.

To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents. To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world.

Father's love of the mother is not enough to raise the child. Because there is a difference between love and manners. Practical is the basis of manners, feeling is the basis of love

You will come to see it in your own way, you will experience things for yourself and live a life of your own, so of course it is primarily for my own sake that I am doing this: showing you the world, little one, makes my life worth living.

A cell.
An accident.
A person who would’ve been miserable anyway. An appointment.
A religious order.
An expense.
A political debate.
Anything but a soul. “Why?”
I don’t care who fights for my life.
I care that they do. They aren’t sure
When my life starts,
But they tell me when it ends.
My body, my rights.
Somebody, where’s mine?
I wasn’t going to come out
As a different thing.
So why am I treated
Like a different thing?
They knew what I’d be,

The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.And time sings.

The children had invaded Halim’s life, and he never got used to the fact. Still, they were his children and he spent time with them, told them stories. He was what you could call a father, but one who was aware that children had robbed him of a large part of his privacy and pleasure. Years later, they would rob him of serenity and good humor.

Analogous to how we teach a child to develop vision by exposing them to visual stimulus a person must learn how to love by immersing themselves in the quick of nature and actively engaging in the tumult of family life. We become loveable by being a loving person. We find ourselves by devoting our lives to the service of other people.