15,393 Quotes About Children

A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man,

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.

How silly men were! Their part in procreation was so unimportant; it was the woman who carried the child through long months of uneasiness and bore it with pain, and yet a man because of his momentary connection made such preposterous claims. Why should that make any difference to him in his feelings towards the child?

I love children. Eating them, that is.

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

The child's naive dream of life is the only one worth having.

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.

I only wanted them near me because I loved them. Though, of course, it was because I loved them that Peter had to take them from me.