15,393 Quotes About Children

But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish them ill also: they would like to eat them up, and absorb their vitality, and remain immortal themselves. Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past - the past of others, loaded on their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

Children are prophets of nature.

Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it.

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

I bambini sono senza passato ed è questo tutto il mistero dell'innocenza magica del loro sorriso...

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

If I have held a part of myself back from my children, I have obviously spent some time calculating the expense of being a father. And the fact is, a real father doesn't do that kind of math.

We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.

This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.