15,393 Quotes About Children

Children need more time to be simply children and adults need more time to remember their childhood and how they once played.

I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed. Unsanitary. A half-breed, Werner. Aren’t we half-breeds too? Aren’t we half our mother, half our father?

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven

No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.

Children are like water; they don't much care where the stream takes them. They do nothing to avoid or follow the contours.

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.