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To plan and talk is good but to plan and take action is even greater.
— Euginia Herlihy
System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Mother’s Day is coming up soon. If you’re lucky enough to still have your mother, tell her you’re grateful to her […] at some point, we must forgive each other for being flawed human beings. Many of us have trouble putting love or gratitude into words, but keep in mind that out actions always reveal our feelings. Always.
— Cassandra    King, The Same Sweet Girls' Guide to Life: Advice from a Failed Southern Belle
People have boldness to criticize but not to sensitize.
— Amit Kalantri
It takes a really long time to realize this, but if you’re lucky you eventually see that you’ve got this life on this planet and you’re responsible for really loving yourself. And I mean really, really, really loving yourself. Love is never a corruption. I’m talking about loving yourself with a true love, a love that’s incorruptible and everlasting.
— C. JoyBell C.
My heart is not available for hurt.
— Amit Kalantri
At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.
— Christine Mason Miller
Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science.
— C. JoyBell C.
That's enough crying about the problems, let's begin killing the problems.
— Amit Kalantri
Improvement is not enough, you also needs innovation.
— Amit Kalantri
Get to know everything is impossible, but we should to strive for this.
— Anastasia Novyh "Allatra"
I study Astronomy because it is the loftiest form of science available. It is the highest possible reaches that we can go to with knowledge and understanding. Every day, we get to look into infinity, into the everlasting, into time, space, space-time and into both the past and the future. Every day, we redefine what exists; we dance on the borders of reality and the unreal. I hardly even dare say the word, “unreal.” We have yet to prove that word.
— C. JoyBell C.
My ideas will not be discussed, they will be executed.
— Amit Kalantri
If you don't have the confidence to ask, you will never have the confidence to convince.
— Amit Kalantri
My men are my money.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Great ideas doesn't need approvals, they need application.
— Amit Kalantri
A person is thinking creature. His/Her main power of effect is in his/her thoughts.
— Anastasia Novyh "Allatra"
Hug your customers but also offer handshake to your competitors.
— Amit Kalantri
Consistency is good, but progress is better.
— Amit Kalantri
A real businessman value his partners like friends and his partnership like friendship.
— Amit Kalantri
Healthy people sleep eight hours,Wealthy people sleep four hours.
— Amit Kalantri
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any other human activity. In this sphere, wisdom, which may be defined as the exercise of judgment acting on experience, common sense and available information, is less operative and more frustrated than it should be. Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests? Why does intelligent mental process seem so often not to function?
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Your abilities are not enough to fulfill your wishes, so work considering your wishes and not your abilities.
— Amit Kalantri
You have your God, I have my guts.
— Amit Kalantri
The only measurement I understand is perfection.
— Amit Kalantri
If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance.
— Amit Kalantri
First make your business itself a brand and then every product you create will be accepted as a brand.
— Amit Kalantri
Improvement is not enough, you also need innovation.
— Amit Kalantri
Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy.
— Amit Kalantri
As you grow old, if you don't earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby.
— Amit Kalantri
You don't need anybody's permission to prove yourself, just prove yourself.
— Amit Kalantri
Jewelry maybe is more expensive than clothes, but clothes are more important than jewelry.
— Amit Kalantri
Punctuality is not just limited to arriving at a place at right time, it is also about taking actions at right time.
— Amit Kalantri
God has created you, not your future.
— Amit Kalantri
Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun.
— Amit Kalantri
Take care of your manners as seriously as your money.
— Amit Kalantri
Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.
— Amit Kalantri
A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.
— Amit Kalantri
Don't feel bad if your youth cannot be joyful, but at least make it useful.
— Amit Kalantri
Every person is a project, God's project, I want to be the most profitable one.
— Amit Kalantri
Your clothes should be as important as your skin.
— Amit Kalantri
God gave us ground we created a city, God gave us time we need to create a future.
— Amit Kalantri
A man can build a home but it needs a woman to run a home.
— Amit Kalantri
Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.
— Amit Kalantri
When it comes to creating things, I compete with nature not with men.
— Amit Kalantri
After I leave the earth my work is anyway going to belong to the world for centuries but till that time I want to work freely.
— Amit Kalantri
People become followers of the God because of his fear, but they become a fan of a hero because of his work.
— Amit Kalantri
Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.
— Amit Kalantri
Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.
— Amit Kalantri
Let people stick to their philosophy, you stick to your passion.
— Amit Kalantri
Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility.
— Amit Kalantri
A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.
— Amit Kalantri
People enjoy convincing others, if others are wrong they convince them towards right, if others are already right they still want to convince them towards wrong.
— Amit Kalantri
Nature has created countless number of wonders, we got a long way to go as man have created only seven wonders.
— Amit Kalantri
People with responsibility and people without responsibility are sorry for each other.
— Amit Kalantri
My artificial creations will be better than nature's natural creations.
— Amit Kalantri
I can lend you my money not my books.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
In the world that we live in— purity and innocence are the true strengths. It is strength to live in a world like this and remain pure of heart, it is strength to live in a world like this and retain innocence. These are things that the world wants to take away from you, that experiences tend to alter and attempt to redefine. The wild ones aren’t the defiled ones— the wild ones are the pure ones, the innocent ones. It takes a true wildness to retain these things through the fire and through the storms. It takes a real wildness to remain in the wild— not contorted and maligned by circumstance and experiences. And it takes power to stand up and to choose what experiences we allow to take root or to even come into our lives.
— C. JoyBell C.
To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap.
— Amit Kalantri
Roses are picked every day, they are told that they will be better off sold in the flower shoppe. And so they go from the hands of the picker; to the hands of the delivery man; to the hands of the florist; to the hands of the customer; and then often to the hands of the final recipient of the rose. From field, cut by scissors and passed from hand to hand. The world has forgotten that it is okay for roses to be in fields, the world has forgotten the beauty of the rose uncut. The bouquet is praised and given away but the wild roses are forgotten. People have forgotten what “wild” means; they think it means something entirely different. The wild rose remains untouched, with roots and swayed by the meadow winds. And that is wild. I am wild for having roots and for being untouched and for seeing things that people have forgotten. And I will always remember— that it is okay to be uncut, that it is okay to be untouched by darkness, it is okay to be wild.
— C. JoyBell C.
People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.
— Amit Kalantri
The primary feature of women is not a 'beauty', it's a 'mystery'.
— Amit Kalantri
I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper.
— Amit Kalantri
A borrower who doesn't returns is a beggar.
— Amit Kalantri
Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.
— Amit Kalantri
Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Emotions manipulates the man more than habits do.
— Amit Kalantri
Two kinds of people have many friends, one with bank balance and other with boldness.
— Amit Kalantri
I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.
— Amit Kalantri
At home I am a man, at work I am a machine.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Beliefs are stronger than mere ideas, thoughts and notions, be careful about what you believe.
— Amit Kalantri
When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.
— Amit Kalantri
Never believe a friend who offered you his friendship just because he was getting bored.
— Amit Kalantri
There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.
— Amit Kalantri
People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.
— Amit Kalantri
People won't respect you until you achieve the respectable goals.
— Amit Kalantri
Be bold, don't be boring.
— Amit Kalantri
In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness.
— Amit Kalantri
Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence.
— Amit Kalantri
My 'passion' is my priority.
— Amit Kalantri
A mute mentor & blind noviceI grabbed your hand; made me wise..."-Shahzaib
— Shahzaib Ansari
People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem, I go to my library read the relevant book and provide the solution.
— Amit Kalantri
Wisdom is not to be at the top of a giant pyramid and hence see everywhere clearly, but wisdom is to be at the top, at the bottom, to be inside the pyramid, it is to be everywhere!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
And I realized, that the reason why good things were not happening to me as often as wanted them to, was because I in fact was a good thing that needed to happen. I needed to happen to me, to other people and to the world. And so I happened.
— C. JoyBell C.
People are crazy about food, smoking, drinking, girls but not about their dreams.
— Amit Kalantri
Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.
— Amit Kalantri
Love is God, and the one that believes in love, believes in God.
— Radhe Maa
It's easy to get carried away in the search for “experience.” I think that people boast of “experience” as if all experience is good. The whole world will tell you that all mistakes are good and all experiences are worthwhile. Nevertheless, I believe in an equilibrium. I always say “throw yourself out there” but at the same time, I want to tell you, that there are so many experiences in life that you’re better off not experiencing. Experience is not always a positive thing, it can affect a person in such a way that it is like finding a tulip trampled under foot, run over by bicycles and spit on. And then the tulip is set on a windowsill for sale with a sign that says “I have had so much experience, that’s why I’m more expensive.” But the truth is, there’s nothing wrong with being that tulip in the field, untouched and caressed by moonlight. Yes, we have the choice to make mistakes, but we also have the choice to choose what things we allow in to make marks upon our lives. It is okay to be untouched by darkness.
— C. JoyBell C.
Be the love of your love, not the slave of your love.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
If you won't improve yourself, who will?
— Radhe Maa
People wonder if it’s possible to meet a person, or to just read their name out loud for the first time— and within those moments— to know them, to remember them, even if you have never met them before! Well of course this is possible and in fact, for some of us, our lives are spent reuniting with such people. There are different types of bonds. Some we have ran with, some we have swam with, others we have won battles side-by-side! And then there is the one whom we have loved. Some of us have been here so many times before— that we spend this lifetime not wasting any moments— but we spend our moments searching for those we have bonds with. And of course, searching for the one we are bound to. Our dreams at night— they contain our memories of places we think we’ve never even been to, of people we think we’ve never even met before. Of course, yes, it is possible to read a name out loud and for the vibration of that name on your lips to open up a casket filled with things that are anything but dead! Nothing dies.
— C. JoyBell C.
Don't have an opinion about a person until you know them. And then when you do know the person, know him or her in such a way that you won't even think of having any opinions about them! Because you know them enough to believe that your opinions wouldn't matter, anyway. Because the importance of your opinions dim in the light of their meaningful souls. This is how to love humanity.
— C. JoyBell C.
it is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering
— Radhe Maa
Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you.
— Radhe Maa
Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you asleep are nightmares.
— Amit Kalantri
The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God
— Radhe Maa
By practicing compassion and forgiveness, one can control hatred.
— Radhe Maa
Money comes to those who act intelligently, and God to those who hunger for his grace
— Radhe Maa
Spiritual knowledge is fruitful only when it is applied
— Radhe Maa
Saints love all beings. They love even those who attempt to harm them.
— Radhe Maa
Your personality should be described in poem not in paragraph.
— Amit Kalantri
Do not desire a long life or an early death
— Radhe Maa
Hatred can be cured by love.
— Radhe Maa
We exist to serve the Lord
— Radhe Maa
If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position
— Radhe Maa
Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go.
— Radhe Maa
Knowledge is not the thing to boast or to brag! It's about how you can make influence on lives without uttering a single word.
— Prerak Trivedi
Worship the work not the God, because work is God.
— Amit Kalantri
Spiritual growth is the only real growth
— Radhe Maa
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
— Albert Einstein
Children begin by loving their parents
—  as they grow older they judge them
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
— C.S. Lewis
Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.
— Khaled Hosseini
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Children see magic because they look for it.
— Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. 
— Rick Riordan
Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.
— Stephen King
Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.
— Debra Ginsberg
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me. 
— Fred Rogers
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Speeches
Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.
— Isabel Allende
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew." - Pocahontas
— Walt Disney Company
God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
— Walt Whitman
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
— Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
— Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites a finger's touch. But when you live with them and love them, you feel the softness going inward, the round-cheeked flesh wobbly as custard, the boneless splay of the tiny hands. Their joints are melted rubber, and even when you kiss them hard, in the passion of loving their existence, your lips sink down and seem never to find bone. Holding them against you, they melt and mold, as though they might at any moment flow back into your body.But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says "I am," and forms the core of personality.In the second year, the bone hardens and the child stands upright, skull wide and solid, a helmet protecting the softness within. And "I am" grows, too. Looking at them, you can almost see it, sturdy as heartwood, glowing through the translucent flesh.The bones of the face emerge at six, and the soul within is fixed at seven. The process of encapsulation goes on, to reach its peak in the glossy shell of adolescence, when all softness then is hidden under the nacreous layers of the multiple new personalities that teenagers try on to guard themselves.In the next years, the hardening spreads from the center, as one finds and fixes the facets of the soul, until "I am" is set, delicate and detailed as an insect in amber.
— Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
— Russell Brand
It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
— Roald Dahl, Matilda
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.
— Walt Disney Company
Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.
— Joanne Harris, The Girl with No Shadow
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
— Phyllis Diller
When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.
— Johnny Depp
Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.
— Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
— Plato
You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.
— Elizabeth Berg
There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.
— Mark  Lawrence, King of Thorns
You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. 
— Maurice Sendak
It was then that Hook bit him.Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.
— J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
— Harry Edwards
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
— Bertrand Russell
I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my child & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.
— Brian Andreas
What exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?
— John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.
— Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.
— Brian Andreas
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
— Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
It is the custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your own mother doing this, and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up, making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you wake in the morning, the naughtinesses and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind; and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.
— J.M. Barrie
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
— Norman Douglas
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
— Michael  Jackson
If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip. 
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
Children are capable of such open rudeness.
— Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society
The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.
— Justine Larbalestier, Zombies Vs. Unicorns
I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
— Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King
It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.
— Betty  Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way. 
— Michael  Jackson
Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.
— Peggy O'Mara
I like children. If they're properly cooked.
— W.C. Fields
Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.
— Brad Pitt
By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.
— Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential
He stepped to her again, laid his lips on her brow. "But I want children with you, my lovely Eve. One day.""One day being far, far in the future. Like, I don't know, say a decade when...Hold on. Children is plural."He eased back, grinned. "Why, so it is--nothing slips by my canny cop.""You really think if I ever actually let you plant something in me--they're like aliens in there, growing little hands and feet." She shuddered. "Creepy. If I ever did that, popped a kid out--which I think is probably as pleasant a process as having your eyeballs pierced by burning, poisonous sticks, I'd say, 'Whoopee, let's do this again?' Have you recently suffered head trauma?""Not to my knowledge.""Could be coming. Any second.
— J.D. Robb, Survivor In Death
Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
— Anna Quindlen, Black and Blue
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires. And in writing _Ender's Game_, I forced the audience to experience the lives of these children from that perspective--the perspective in which their feelings and decisions are just as real and important as any adult's. ... _Ender's Game_ asserts the personhood of children, and those who are used to thinking of children in another way ... are going to find _Ender's Game_ a very unpleasant place to live.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man,
— Mario Puzo, The Godfather
The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.
— Peggy O'Mara
They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.
— Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches
Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what they'd like to grow there instead. I've witnessed this with the former hockey player who takes his son out to skate before he can even walk. Or in the mother who gave up her ballet dreams when she married, but now scrapes her daughter's hair into a bun and watched from the wings of the stage. We are not, as you'd expect, orchestrating their lives; we are not even trying for a second chance. We are hoping that if this one thing takes root, it might take up enough light and space to keep something else from developing in our children: the disappointment we've already lived.
— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.
— Joe Hill, Horns
There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother?Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.
— Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go - we’ll eat you up - we love you so!”And Max said, “No!”The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye.
— Maurice Sendak
It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men’s theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother’s influence. Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children’s needs. That decision can be most shortsighted. It is mother’s influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child’s basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother’s loving example to choose righteousness. How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home—and how apparent when neglected!
— Ezra Taft Benson
Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.
— Nancy E. Turner, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
Every child needs a champion.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
I really loathe [the bumper sticker] 'Proud Parent of a Terrific Kid!'Why not a bumper sticker for the unlucky parents, something like: 'My Fifteen-Year-Old's in Detox and Not Speaking to Any of Us' or 'My Kid Robbed a 7-Eleven and is in a Center for Youthful Offenders.
— Celia Rivenbark, Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments
When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
— Pat Conroy
Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?
— Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope
What do your parents know, about surviving? 
— Lemony Snicket, The End
How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.
— J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy
A man's immortality can be found in his children.
— Patricia Briggs, Raven's Shadow
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. 
— Thomas Szasz
There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?
— Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant
Dope.They sell that shit to schoolkids.It's worse than that.How's that?Schoolkids buy it.
— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
What we instill in our children will be the foundation upon which they build their future.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
— Leo Rosten
If you make me lunch," he said, "will you put it in a brown paper bag?...Because when I see kids come to school with their lunch in a paper bag, that means that someone cares about them. Miss Laura, can I please have my lunch in a paper bag?
— Laura Schroff, An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing. I am like sugar dissolved in a glass of water. Or, I am like salt, which disappears when you cook with it. I am salt. Without my children, I cease to exist.
— Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us
A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.
— Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.
— Dave Barry
The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that gave birth to his children. It is because of her that you have the greatest treasures in your life. You may have moved on, but your children have not. If you can’t be her soulmate, then at least be thoughtful. Whom your children love should always be someone that you acknowledge with kindness. Your children notice everything and will follow your example.
— Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask for a More Vibrant Marriage
Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. 
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
A deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman’s reputation and spirit, in order to prove to his ex-love that he was faithful. The irony, is he is still in love with his ex and the new woman in his life doesn’t even realize it.
— Shannon L. Alder
The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.
— Marilyn Manson
There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.
— Robert Benchley, Pluck and Luck
You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff
Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
— Lawana Blackwell
I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words
— Alfred de Vigny, Stello
I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …It does not hurt them to read about good and evil, love and hate, life and death. Nor do I think they should read only about things that they understand. '…a man’s reach should exceed his grasp.' So should a child’s. For myself, I will never talk down to, or draw down to, children.(from the author's acceptance speech for the Caldecott award)
— Barbara Cooney, Chanticleer and the Fox
Gin a body meet a bodyComing thro' the rye,Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?
— Robert Burns
What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
— Marjorie Holmes
The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and gently tucked it in the oven, so that she wouldn't be disturbed by the noise of the small falls outside... When he pulled her out to feed her or just hold her, her body was tattooed with the newsprint... Sometimes he would rock her to sleep in his arms, and read her left to right, and know everything he needed to know about the world. If it wasn't written on her, it wasn't important to him.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.
— Tom Bissell
You should listen to even the smallest voice, someday it could be the one that makes a difference.
— Crystal Marcos
Woe to the man who offends a small child!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.
— Jane Goodall
It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.
— Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
Without you there would be no me. I am everything reflected in your eyes. I am everything approved by your smile. I am everything born of your guidance. I am me only because of you.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
...that was Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner LIfe and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself Number 83...If a Adult Tells You Not to Worry, and You Weren't Worried Before, You Better Hurry Up and Start 'Cause You're Already Running Late.
— Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
— Josh Billings
You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adults.''''Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,'' Teresa replied. ''Only they get along just fine, and my car never makes my bluetooth feel like shit.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner
No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they’re looking for....
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to take in as much light and love and colour and detail as they can.The world is a coaxing whisper when the wind lips the trees, when the sea licks the shore, when animals burrow into earth and people look up at the sympathetic stars. The world is an admonishing roar when gales chase rainclouds over the plains and whip up ocean waves, when people crowd into cities or intrude into dazzling jungles.What right have we to carry our desperate mouths up mountains or into deserts? Do we want to taste rock and sand or do we expect to make impossible poems from space and silence? The vastness at least reminds us how tiny we are, and how much we don't yet understand. We are mere babes in the universe, all brothers and sisters in the nursery together. We had better learn to play nicely before we're allowed out..... And we want to go out, don't we? ..... Into the distant humming welcoming darkness.
— Jay Woodman, SPAN
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
— Walt Streightiff
Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.
— Tom Waits
Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously.
— Milan Kundera, Identity
It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt