15,393 Quotes About Children

Some self-employed people work for others.

The only thing most of us love about most of our family members is that they are related to us.

The flowers and trees havepredictable needsAnd easy to care forBut the children now that is work

She was our mother and belonged to us. She was never mentioned to anyone because we simply didn't have enough of her to share.

The problem nowadays is that children have become too much the center of attention. Their parents, their families, everybody around them feels a need to put them on a pedestal. So much effort is invested in boosting their self-esteem that they are made to feel special in and of themselves, without having done anything.

By the time I wrote this book I needed to look at heroics from outside and underneath, from the point of view of the people who are not included. The ones who can’t do magic. The ones who don’t have shining staffs or swords. Women, kids, the poor, the old, the powerless. Unheroes, ordinary people—my people. I didn’t want to change Earthsea, but I needed to see what Earthsea looked like to us.

There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one of the few who didn't have children, who lived alone, who was still kinda young. Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind, a woman with no child could be explained only by vast untrammelled calamity.Maybe she just doesn't like children.Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

Some people’s deaths would not have pained us had we not known that to them we were related.

To lead is not to call your family up to where you’re at. Rather, it’s to abandon where you’re at and call yourself down to where they are.