15,393 Quotes About Children

within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forever alter an individual's compass. And it is the knowing that such a thing can so easily happen, as you did not know before, not really, that has fundamentally changed you and your son.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

True children of God experience pleasure in giving.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew.""He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six.""Right.""And you're the oldest.""Yes.""That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.