15,393 Quotes About Children

Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.

Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers.

Hope had finally learned to live in the present. Often, when she found herself in a space of tremendous comfort, usually out in nature, or when her children were safe all around her and on the verge of going to bed, she forced herself to take stock. Here you are, Hope, she told herself. What a beautiful moment. You may never again be here at this spot, enjoying the calm. This habit of hers, to acknowledge the immediate and elusive joy of the present, kept her sane.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also.

One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood was this weird, deluded but unshakable conviction that everything around me existed all and only For Me. Am I the only one who had this queer deep sense as a kid? -- that everything exterior to me existed only insofar as it affected me somehow? -- that all things were somehow, via some occult adult activity, specially arranged for my benefit?

Children have no business expressing opinions on anything except "Do you have enough room in the toes?

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