15,393 Quotes About Children

No, Roger had not seen the funny side. But there had been a moment when, after looking at his watch, he had thought: I can remember when Christmas morning would start at about half past ten with a glass of Buck's Fizz in bed. Now it begins at half past five, with a test of my fine motor skills and ability to read Korean.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.

Be the kind of grown up you needed as a child.

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

I find the thought of my children telling their friends their father is an accomplished author appealing. I used to think that I needed to be famous and write a bestseller to be considered accomplished and I very well may think that again at some later point, but for now in this moment, I sit with a smile on my face, holding tears of joy back, knowing that I am already an accomplished individual and that if I never create a best-selling book, I can still die a happy man.

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

But to be close to a child, for whom one spent everything, whose life was protected and nourished by one’s own, to have that child beside one, at peace, was the real, the deepest, the only joy.

The absence of a past or very limited past is the secret of happiness for a child.