15,393 Quotes About Children

Their life was two things: it was a life, more or less—at least it was the preparation for one—and it was an illustration of life for their children.

Penn considered how clever it was of him to have birthed a Greek Chorus to hear his tales.

Tą dieną man pirmą dingtelėjo, kad suaugusieji yra tarpusavyje sudarę sąmokslą prieš vaikus. Užtenka jiems pasakyti žodį, ir vaikas pasmerktas. Tada jau niekas tau nebepadės: nei tavo galios ašaros, bei nuoširdžiausi prisiekinėjimai. Suaugusieji paprasčiausiai nekreipia į tai dėmesio...

The confidence you instill in children can change the world.

[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

Some children are a bitch or an asshole in the making.

I admired how she knew, well before I did, that the point of a child is not what you hope he will accomplish in your name but the pleasure that he will bring you, whatever form it comes in, even if it is a form that is barely recognisable as pleasure at all - and, more important, the pleasure that you will be privileged to bring him.

The eldest child is the golden one, the middle child invisible, and the youngest child is loud.

The best gift one can give to one's children is a happy marriage.