CHILDREN QUOTES VIII

quotations about children

It is important to communicate to children about what we are going through. We often speak in half truths. We don't frame the truth or explain our experience in terms they can understand. We need to take time to do this. What has to happen is that more people have to get involved with more children. Focus energy on the child. Children are raising themselves these days in all sorts of strange ways.

JAMES REDFIELD

interview, Edge Magazine, Jun. 1, 1994


Half the human race are taken out of the world as children. I think that proves God's great fondness for children as children.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful


Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

HONORE DE BALZAC

Letters of Two Brides


Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects; they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others; already they are men.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of Mankind"


Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

BILL COSBY

Fatherhood


Motherhood is an early retirement position. Your children do grow up.

COLLEEN PARRO

PBS interview


If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

Reflections and Maxims


Children keep a family together, especially when one can't get a babysitter.

FREDERICK SHEPPERD

Electricity on the Farm


I believe the children are the future... Unless we stop them now!

HOMER SIMPSON

"The Wandering Juvie", The Simpsons


The pressures on children today were not good, it seemed to him. A frankness about sex and drugs, explicit newspapers, four-letter words tossed from the television. A different type of child, more knowing but less loveable, was being created.

GUY BELLAMY

The Man Who Won

Tags: Guy Bellamy


We can't control everything thing our kids do. Sooner or later they're just gonna do what they're gonna do. They're like people that way.

ROSEANNE BARR

"Bird is the Word", Roseanne


A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

ALBUS DUMBLEDORE

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban


Self-esteem is the real magic wand that can form a child’s future. A child’s self-esteem affects every area of her existence, from friends she chooses, to how well she does academically in school, to what kind of job she gets, to even the person she chooses to marry.

STEPHANIE MARTSON

The Magic of Encouragement


Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long


It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness.

IRVIN D. YALOM

When Nietzsche Wept


I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

CHARLES LAMB

"A Bachelor's Complaint", Elia and the Last Essays of Elia


Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

JOHN LOCKE

Some Thoughts Concerning Education


I wasn't really that informed about the two-year-old. Oh, I'd read about them, and occasionally I'd see documentaries on the Discovery Channel showing two-year-olds in the wild, where they belong.

RAY ROMANO

Everything and a Kite


Children go through life with same tact as tornado.

CHARLIE CHAN

Charlie Chan in The Secret Service


A childless man is like a loose engine in a ship. A man must be bolted and screwed to the community before he can work well for its advancement; and there are no such screws and bolts as children.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit