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I want to go swimming," the child said. She waited for opposition, but none came. So she took off her clothes, slowly and nervously. She glanced at her grandmother -- you can't depend on people who just let things happen. She put her legs in the water."It's cold," she said."Of course it's cold," the old woman said, her thoughts somewhere else. "What did you expect?
— Jansson, Tove
We could see that our mothers blackmailed us with self-sacrifice, even if we did not know whether or not they might have been great opera stars or toasts of the town if they had not borne us. In our intractable moments we pointed out that we had not asked to be born, or even to go to an expensive school. We knew that they must have had motives of their own for what they did with us and to us. The notion of our parents' self-sacrifice filled us not with gratitude but with confusion and guilt. We wanted them to be happy yet they were sad and deprived and it was our fault.
— Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Children think around corners.
— Jacob M. Held, Stephen King and Philosophy
No, she thought, putting together some of the pictures he had cut out - a refrigerator, a mowing machine, a gentleman in evening dress - children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and it was a relief when they went to bed.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Remember not to complain about the matter but construct, compose, compass and conquer the matter
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Salvation Colors: Children's Salvation Story Series, Book one
Mockery is not just the interest of children
—  it is their second meal
A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony.
— Bertrand Russell
Because most of us recognize that we will fight to protect our children, we cannot be absolute pacifists.
— Nel Noddings, Peace Education: How We Come to Love and Hate War
The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Thanks to the nation's testing mania (which I like to call 'No Child Left Untested' rather than 'No Child Left Behind'), children are being barraged with a nonstop volley of standardized tests. From kindergarten to graduate school, students are subjected to an unprecedented number of high-stakes tests
— Laurie E. Rozakis, I Before E, Except After C: Spelling for the Alphabetically Challenged
Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.
— Paul Gitwaza
Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person’s life must remain private for the preservation of one’s sanity is almost frivolous.
— Aysha Taryam
I sense him smiling and laughing and looking at me with eyes of a thousand aborted children coming back to rightfully claim their life, to claim the earth.
— A.P. Sweet, dead, but dreaming
One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur.
— Steve Maraboli
Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child’s insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defer to the child.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I let myself exist mainly through my children... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led.
— M.F.K. Fisher, Sister Age
You may give them your love but not your thougts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The Child is the Alpha and the Omega of a parent’s happiness.
— Amit Abraham
Jake shrugged, in the way that only nine-year-old children can manage -- and usually male children at that, girls not being permitted the same kind of insouciance.
— Marie Brennan, The Voyage of the Basilisk
Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent.
— Clifford Cohen
A father is only capable of giving what he has, and what he knows. A good father gives all of himself that is good.
— Vincent Carrella
But what do I do with them?" Miss Smith said "I've never been around children." "Feed them, bathe them, make sure they get plenty of sleep," the doctor said. "They're no more diffi cult than puppies, really." He grinned
— Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, The War that Saved My Life
There can be no love without justice. Until we live in a culture that no only respects but also upholds basic civil rights for children, most children will not know love.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
It is the mystery of the unknownThat fascinates us; we are children stillWayward and wistful; with one hand we clingTo the familiar things we call our own,And with the other, resolute of will,Grope in the dark for what the day will bring
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The next parent who Googles Is my 2-year-old gifted? should get a curt response: Your 2-year-old is a gift.
— Ron  Fournier, Love That Boy: What Two Presidents, Eight Road Trips, and My Son Taught Me About a Parent's Expectations
However, what I do believe to genuinely sacred - and, indeed, more useful to the earth as a whole - is trying to ensure that there are as few unbalanced, destructive people as possible. By whatever rationale you use, ending a pregnancy 12 weeks into gestation is incalculably more moral than bringing an unwanted child into this world. It's those unhappy, unwanted children, who then grew into angry adults, who have caused the great majority of humankind's miseries. They are the ones who make states feel feral; streets dangerous; relationships violent.
— Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
Nothing is more important than creative play through imagination. Never stop playing, and never stop imagining!
— Carmela Dutra
Empowered Women 101: Empowered women never live the life they wouldn't want for their daughter. They teach them what self respect looks like.
— Shannon L. Alder
That's the funny thing about children. When they were around, you wanted peace and quiet. A mere moment to yourself. You felt absolutely desperate to go more than three minutes without hearing the word Moooooooom echoing throughout the house. To go to the bathroom or - if luck was really on your side - to take an uninterrupted shower. Yet, when they were absent, no matter how infrequently that happened, it felt as though someone had amputated your limb and left a stinging open wound in its place. And you craved them like a cold beer on a blistering summer day.
— Emily Liebert, Some Women
To receive children’s love and to come home to a child who runs to you with a hug, among the most powerful emotional experiences available.
— Dennis Prager
Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term. We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people; rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people. After all, half those new people we go on to create are also women - presumably themselves to be judged, in their futures, for not making new people. And so it will go on and on...
— Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman
Real gases behaved like ideal gases as long as they remained in stable conditions. When the environment changed, either with increased temperature or mounting pressure, they began to deviate from their regular nature and at some point, crossed over to the less-than-ideal state. If deviating form perfection was the law of nature, why were children expected to be perfect in an imperfect world?
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
Do not scream, when a child breaks a glass, only touch the shoulder, and say gracious words; do not worry!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Children observe everything with caution.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Children are great observers.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I want you to be careful in this world. My heart is wrapped up in you.
— Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King
Ghosts!” gasped Alice. “Real, live ghosts?”“No! Not ‘real, live ghosts!’ Spooky, dead ghosts!
— Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret
If walking into the responsibility of caring for eighteen children was difficult, walking out on that responsibility was almost impossible. The children had become a constant presence, little spinning tops that splattered joy onto everyone they bumped into.
— Conor Grennan, Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
Down vith children! Do them in!Boil their bones and fry their skin!Bish them, sqvish them, bash them, mash them!Brrreak them, shake them, slash them, smash them!Offer chocs vith magic powder!Say “Eat up!” then say it louder.Crrram them full of sticky eats,Send them home still guzzling sveets.And in the morning little foolsGo marching off to separate schools.A girl feels sick and goes all pale.She yells, “Hey look! I've grrrown a tail!”A boy who's standing next to herScreams, “Help! I think I'm grrrowing fur!” Another shouts, “Vee look like frrreaks!There's viskers growing on our cheeks!”A boy who vos extremely tallCries out, “Vot's wrong? I'm grrrowing small!”Four tiny legs begin to sprrroutFrom everybody rrround about.And all at vunce, all in a trrrice,There are no children! Only MICE!
— Roald Dahl, The Witches
Because they know that people will be kinder to a child who smiles.
— François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness
All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.
— Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms
Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don’t know any better.” Pastel Orphans
— Gemma Liviero, Pastel Orphans
Our mothers are our first teachers, and we teach others the same lessons we learn from them. As a child, when your mother believes in you, you believe in yourself, and when that happens, there is nothing you can’t do. As a mother, that is the greatest gift we can give to a child.
— Caroline Kennedy, She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems
Unsatisfied parents produce professionally successful but personally discontent children.
— Himmilicious
Watch the littlest kids carefully
—  the biggest messages for the grown-ups are hidden there!
In the Christic tradition, this is the meaning of  'becoming as a little child.'  Little children don't think they know what things mean, in fact, they know they don't know.  They ask someone older and wiser to explain things to them.  We're like children who don't know but think we do.  We're meant to shine.  Look at small children.  They're all so unique before they start trying to be, because they demonstrate the power of genuine humility.  This is also the explanation of 'beginner's luck.' When we go into a situation not knowing the rules, we don't pretend to know how to figure anything out, and we don't know yet what there is to be afraid of.  This releases the mind to create from its own higher power."  
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with animals. If only you did not talk, did not make simple things complicated, did not turn your soul inside out.
— Hermann Hesse, Klingsors letzter Sommer
She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.
— Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread
The Lord made no better clock than a child, and none more bitter. Oh, what beautiful clocks they are.
— Vincent Louis Carrella, Serpent Box: A Novel
A small child being dragged to bed peered curiously at me as it passed, then waved. We waved back, not being entirely sure how else to respond to small creatures like that.
— Kate Griffin
And she had pushed, or she hadn't. The result was all the same. There had been no forgiveness for her. But she'd been so very young. And how was it possible, how could parents do this? How could she not have been forgiven?
— Lauren Groff
Arthur said, You must know that you don't love children for being good or bad. I know you know that.Why do you love them?Because you do, said Arthur. Because they don't know what's coming and maybe you do.
— Jane Smiley, Early Warning
Love was always and only about good feeling. In early adolescence when we were whipped and told that these punishments were 'for our own good' or 'I'm doing this because I love you,' my siblings and I were confused. Why was harsh punishment a gesture of love? As children do, we pretended to accept this grown-up logic; but we knew in our hearts it was not right. We knew it was a lie. Just like the lie the grown-ups told when they explained after the harsh punishment, 'This hurts me more than it hurts you.' There is nothing that creates more confusion about love in the minds and hearts of children than unkind and/or cruel punishment meted out by the grown-ups they have been taught should love and respect. Such children learn early on to question the meaning of love, to yearn for love even as they doubt it exists.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don’t know any better.
— Gemma Liviero
Cleaning with children in the house really is like brushing your teeth while eating Oreos.
— Joleigh Little
Poor little lambs,’ says one, eyeing us constantly, as if there is something wrong with us; as if we have a condition that can’t be named.” Pastel Orphans
— Gemma Liviero, Pastel Orphans
Classroom teaching withholds nothing. I say to my young students every year, “I know how to add two numbers, but I’m not going to tell you.” And they laugh and shout, “No!” That’s so absurd, so unthinkable. What do I have that I would not give to you?Bringing nothing, producing nothing, expecting nothing, withholding nothing — what does that remind you of? Is this a bizarre occurrence that will go into The Journal of Irreproducible Results? Or is it something that happens every day, all the time, all over the world,and is based not on gain and fame, but on love.
— Margaret Edson
There's a saying, 'Death hath a thousand doors to let out life; I shall find one.' But the children. That's what I struggle with.' He shook his head. 'Why the children?
— Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Coloured Lands: A Whimsical Gathering Of Drawings, Stories, And Poems
Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.
— Michael R. French, Once Upon a Lie
I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.
— Brooke Hayward
There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin
What kind of legacy will you leave behind? What will your children and your children's children say about you? How will you be remembered? Will your life and decisions have inspired others to do better? Life is too short to postpone it - choose to be positive today.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, The Happy Lady
Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
More children suffer from interference than from noninterference.
— Agatha Christie, Crooked House
Those who say that having childlike faith means not asking questions haven't met too many children.
— Rachel Held Evans, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
Never. I promise you this: they will stay together. They will be safe. My children will be accompanying them to the same home.
— Brad McKinniss, Beast Machine
Child's evidence is always the best evidence there is. I'd rely on it every time. No good in court, of course. Children can't stand being asked direct questions. They mumble or else look idiotic and say they don't know. They're at their best when they're showing off.
— Agatha Christie, Crooked House
...in those days children were rather out of fashion.
— Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
I don’t kill children,” she said. “Not even when it’s the right thing to do.
— James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War
Rear your children in light and truth. Teach them to pray while they are young. Read to them from the scriptures even though they may not understand all that you read. Teach them to pay their tithes and offerings on the first money they ever receive. Let this practice become a habit in their lives. Teach your sons to honor womanhood. Teach your daughters to walk in virtue. Accept responsibility in the Church, and trust in the Lord to make you equal to any call you may receive. Your example will set a pattern for your children. Reach out in love to those in distress and need.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...
— Janusz Korczak
Peer pressure becomes more powerful when our children are away from our influence and when their defenses are weakened late at night. If you have ever felt uneasy about an overnight activity, don’t be afraid to respond to that warning voice inside. Always be prayerful when it comes to protecting your precious children.
— Larry R. Lawrence
Teach them [your children] in such a way that they could not misunderstand the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
I hope that you mothers will realize that when all is said and done, you have no more compelling responsibility, nor any laden with greater rewards, than the nurture you give your children in an environment of security, peace, companionship, love, and motivation to grow and do well.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
I believe that it should be the blessing of every child to be born into a home where that child is welcomed, nurtured, loved, and blessed with parents, a father and a mother, who live with loyalty to one another and to their children.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
One of the most effective ways we can influence our sons and daughters is to counsel with them in private interviews. By listening closely, we can discover the desires of their hearts, help them set righteous goals, and also share with them the spiritual impressions that we have received about them. Counseling requires courage.
— Larry R. Lawrence
Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small, but these oppressions still make them into slightly insane adults, either mad to seize all the power they once lacked or (more usually) mad to avoid it.
— Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
The smaller girl hid her eyes with her hands, and Ewan smiled. Did she think that would make her invisible?
— C.J. Milbrandt, Aboard the Train
I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.
— Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret
Now she and the widow had something in common, though loss did not pass from one person to another like a baton. It just formed a bigger and bigger pool of carriers. And she thought, scratching the coarseness of the horses's mane, it did not leave, once lodged, did it? It simply changed form, and asked repeatedly for attention and care as each year revealed a new knot to cry out and consider, smaller, sure, but never gone...Out of my body, these beautiful monsters.
— Aimee Bender, The Color Master: Stories
Children can be told anything—anything. I've always been struck by seeing how little grown-up people understand children, how little parents even understand their own children. Nothing should be concealed from children on the pretext that they are little and that it is too early for them to understand. What a miserable and unfortunate idea! And how readily the children detect that their fathers consider them too little to understand anything, though they understand everything. Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
Eli snorted, her eyes narrowed.— Because I am like you.— What do you mean like me? I..Eli thrust her hand through the air as if she was holding a knife, said:— What are you looking at, idiot? Want to die, or something? — Stabbed the air with empty hand. — That what happens if you look at me.Oskar rubbed his lips together, dampening them.— What are you saying?— It's not me that's saying it. It's you. That was the first thing I heard you say. Down on the playground.Oskar remembered. The tree. The knife. How he had held up the blade of the knife like a mirror, seen Eli for the first time.
— John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In
Do you dislike Children? I ask, entertained at the little one’s cleverness in dodging capture attempts.	“I don’t dislike them, nor do I like them. I’ve never understood why one must love children simply because they are children. I don’t love people because they are people; in fact, I rarely like any people at all. If a child is somehow deserving of admiration, I certainly won’t deny it, but why hand it out like candy on Queen’s Day?” 	I laugh, surprising him.	“Do you think me terribly cruel, then?”	“Actually, I agree. It is another great fault of mine my mother endeavored to correct. Children in general I’ve never cared for, though individual children I love very much.
— Kiersten White, Illusions of Fate
A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life...
— Asa Don Brown, The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview
There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.
— Asa Don Brown, The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview
Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't bear. The strong can forget, can shut out history. Very good. Even if it is self-flattery to speak of strength--these aesthetic philosophers, they take a posture, but power sweeps postures away. Still, it's true you can't go on transposing one nightmare into another, Nietzsche was certainly right about that. The tender-minded must harden themselves. Is this world nothing but a barren lump of coke? No, no, but what sometimes seems a system of prevention, a denial of what every human being knows. I love my children, but I am the world to them, and bring them nightmares. I had this child by my enemy. And I love her. The sight of her, the odor of her hair, this minute, makes me tremble with love. Isn't it mysterious how I love the child of my enemy? But a man doesn't need happiness for himself. No, he can put up with any amount of torment--with recollections, with his own familiar evils, despair. And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do without gratification for himself provided there is something great, something into which his being, and all beings can go. He does not need meaning as long as such intensity has scope. Because then it is self-evident; it is meaning.
— Saul Bellow, Herzog
There is no God for sure, else how could one justify terminal diseases in small kids?
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.
— Asa Don Brown, The effects of childhood trauma on adult perception and worldview
The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
By the 1960s the United States had a new ruling class—the teenager!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
To injure, ignore, disrespect, and violate the innocence of a child are among the greatest evils known to man.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father’s troubles.
— Dada Bhagwan
Sometimes when the three of us were together on our own, we would have a good time. I was pretty young, but sometimes we would go off in the woods and build forts and fight Indians and I think things were about as close to fine as they ever got right then during those times. In the woods. No parents. No yelling.
— Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
Has there ever been a more important subject, in all the world, than children and families? These are, after all, the foundation and ultimate purpose of any society. Moreover, the overall purpose of this experience is not merely survival or just the day after day (after day) exercise of going through the motions of meeting basic needs. Rather, it was meant to be a long, deep immersion of a work in progress, a life-long celebration of sorts, steeped in love, beauty, and joy. Anything less is a travesty and is tragically off the mark of true success for the parent and the child, and amiss of the essentials for a fullness of life for both.
— Connie Kerbs
Truth is easier for a child to handle than evasiveness.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
children need calm—they’re artists
— John J. Geddes
It pains me to admit this, but Roger was a good sight less stupid than most children.
— Heidi Schulz, Hook's Revenge
Before the seventeenth century, a child passed directly into the adult world between the ages of five and seven . . . then came the industrial revolution . . .so the child-centered home was born.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The television, iPod, and Internet have trespassed upon the innocence of America’s children, while preoccupied mothers and dispassionate fathers stare aghast wondering what went wrong. They don’t stop to think of their own contributions to the persuasions influencing their children. After all, where do kids as young as elementary age get money to rent rock videos and the latest rap DVDs?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Someday your children will leave; you can’t hold on to them or control them forever, nor should you.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A meme a day keeps the planes away.
— Meme McDonald
If the scrapes were on the front of our knees, she would put our dirty feet in the middle of her chest to clean the wounds, and we could feel her heart beating, strong as the thud of the ground when we walked, through our soles.
— Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
Children must be taught obedience just as much as they need to be taught to read and write.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Parents need much wisdom in relating to their grown children—and much prayer. Children likewise have much to learn about relating to their parents as the years pass.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Children, pray for the salvation of your parents.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
You can't claim to care about the welfare of children if you're shaming other parents for the choices they're making.
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
It may shock some parents to learn that we don’t own our children. God has given them to us in trust . . . however, God may transfer our children to His home at any time.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Most moderately active children – as long as they have full stomachs – cope well with exotic experiences, but parents should get fit for their trip. Young children will expect their parents to be All Powerful so they would be wise to prepare properly and arrive with toned quads or they might not keep up on the slopes.
— Jane Wilson-Howarth, Your Child's Health Abroad: A Manual for Traveling Parents
I missed the joy of seeing our children grow and change. I thank God for watching over them during those years.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Our lives speak loudly to those around us, especially the children in our home.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
One of life’s mysteries is why two children growing up in the same home sometimes take radically different paths—one following Christ, the other rebellious and scornful. Yet it happens.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God gave us our children so we could prepare them to become adults.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Ruth once wrote, “Dear Journal, Never let a single day pass without saying an encouraging word to each child . . .‘More people fail for lack of encouragement,’ someone wrote, ‘than for any other reason.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Children will learn far more by watching than by just listening.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
One of the worst things we can do is allow our children to grow up thinking they don’t need to keep any rules. A spoiled child becomes a spoiled adult.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Love your children—and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If a child is to survive, he or she must know the rules of safety. If he is to be healthy, he must know the rules of health. If he is to drive a car, he must know the rules of the road. If he is to become a ball player, he must learn the rules of the game. And, contrary to popular thinking, children appreciate rules.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Children respect discipline. They want to be guided. It gives them a sense of belonging, a sense of security.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If our children grow up with no understanding of right and wrong . . .no desire to live with integrity . . . no faith in God . . .their souls will be impoverished and they will miss life’s highest good.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Children do need the guidance of their parents, and we guide them more by the example we set than by any other way. We need to be firm and sane and fair and consistent—and, above all, we need to discipline in a spirit of love.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Many children today are growing up without discipline. As they become adults and the discipline of job or family demands are placed upon them, they do not know how to cope . . .children need discipline to be useful members of society. Likewise, God’s children need discipline to be useful members of His family.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The one plus side to demonic infestation is that children cannot be harmed by a demon. The sanctified aura of a child somehow repels the demon and they can only oppress them if the parent makes a contract allowing them to do so. Because they can be very clever in tricking people into agreeing to additional contracts, it is important to never converse with a demon. Either call in a priest or move out as soon as possible.
— Alexei Maxim Russell, The New Homeowner's Guide to House Spirits
What we bloodlessy call 'place' is to young children a wild compound of dream, spell and substance: place is somewhere they are always 'in', never 'on'.
— Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks
Our children will one day lead the world, but it is our responsibility to show them that this world can be a beautiful one.
— Karen A. Baquiran
Political indoctrination was geared towards producing activists. The propaganda image of the ideal child was a precocious political orator mouthing agitprop. Communism could not be taught from books, educational thinkers maintained. It had to be instilled through the whole life of the school, which was in turn to be connected to the broader world of politics through extra-curricular activities, such as celebrating Soviet holidays, joining public marches, reading newspapers and organizing school debates and trials. The idea was to initiate the children into the practices, cults and rituals of the Soviet system so that they would grow up to become loyal and active Communists.
— Orlando Figes, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
There are many who say ‘I believe this,’ but would they hold true to those beliefs if their children were threatened? No. But Genghis would. If you told him you would kill his children, he would tell you to go ahead, but realize that the cost would be infinite, that he would tear down cities and nations and the price would never be paid. He did not lie and his enemies knew it. His word was iron.
— Conn Iggulden, Conqueror
When my children were little, always I had to explain things.Now they don't ask much more, have I become more stupid?
— Hannu Vilponen
The greatest compliment in the world is your adult children telling you they had a wonderful childhood.
— Ron Baratono
In the beginning God made the seas, the mountains, the heavens, and buffalo knees. He made lilies, and dew drops, and snail shells, and roses, and dippers, and yappers, and snappers, and noses.
— Lois Greiman, Buffalo Knees
He looked from His heavens and saw it was good, the toes and the crows all looked like they should. The bunny was quick, the finch bright as a daisy, the owl flew at night, and the tortoise was lazy.
— Lois Greiman, Buffalo Knees
We are eager to teach our children to go in the way they should go (Proverbs 22:6) but sometimes so much unwilling to go that way first.
— Santosh Thankachan
When the tea tray arrived, Annie the doll was propped up on the settee between Poppy and Merritt. The little girl pressed the edge of her teacup against the doll’s painted mouth. “Annie wants more sugar, Mama,” Merritt said. Lillian grinned, knowing who was going to drink the highly sweetened tea. “Tell Annie we never have more than two lumps in a cup, darling. It will make her il
— Lisa Kleypas, Mine Till Midnight
- Daddy won’t buy me a new pony, so I’m gonna burn my old one so he will have to buy me a new one. - Will a horse do? I'm a horse. I'm a horse. Yes, of course. Yes, of course. (That's a little children's poem.).-Jarod Kintz and Stefan D
— Stefan D
I dropped the candies into the children's bags, thinking: You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.
— Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove
The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.
— William Temple
Our baby gives herself to me completely. There is no hesitation, no reservation, no holding back, no coldness, no craft, no tremor or fear in her love. Although our relationship may encompass tears, frustration, even fury, it is an utterly reliable bond. As it grows, her love is literally unadulterated. Her love is wholly of the child, pure in its essence as children are in their direct passions. Children do not love wisely, but perhaps they love the best of all.
— Louise Erdrich, The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
Of course, if you've ever gotten a surprise package, you can imagine how puzzled and excited Milo was; and if you've never gotten one, pay close attention, because someday you might.
— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then they're quite happy again for a bit.
— Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.
— Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Walter looked about him lingeringly and lovingly. This spot had always been so dear to him. What fun they all had had here lang syne. Phantoms of memory seemed to pace the dappled paths and peep merrily through the swinging boughs–Jem and Jerry, bare-legged, sunburned schoolboys, fishing in the brook and frying trout over the old stone fireplace; Nan and Di and Faith, in their dimpled, fresh-eyed childish beauty; Una the sweet and shy, Carl, poring over ants and bugs, little slangy, sharp-tongued, good-hearted Mary Vance–the old Walter that had been himself lying on the grass reading poetry or wandering through palaces of fancy. They were all there around him–he could see them almost as plainly as he saw Rilla–as plainly as he had once seen the Pied Piper piping down the valley in a vanished twilight. And they said to him, those gay little ghosts of other days, "We were the children of yesterday, Walter–fight a good fight for the children of today and tomorrow.
— L.M. Montgomery
Persecuting Christians because of Jesus Christ is like a man who goes after the children of his enemy because he is indeed afraid of his enemy. Matthew 24:9
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible: Volume 2
A child falls many times in attempt to walk. But never quit trying and eventually, the child is able to walk.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The sacred-walk by child takes place with many endured attempts to stand on his or her feet.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
He's fine. He's fine,' he kept saying as the baby became ever more cranky and bewildered; screaming in terror if she tried to put him down.'Why should he be unhappy?' she wanted to say. 'He has had so few days in this world. Why should the unhappiness start here?
— Anne Enright, Yesterday's Weather
We grow old not by the number of our years, but by not numbering our years - not living our dreams, not enjoying the everyday life
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
I know a beautiful garden, where there are a great many children in fine little coats, and they go under the trees and gather beautiful apples and pears, cherries and plums; they sing and run about and are as happy as they can be. Sometimes they ride on nice little ponies, with golden bridles and silver saddles. I asked the man whose garden it is, “What little children are these?” And he told me, “They are little children who love to pray and learn and are good.
— Martin Luther
Come out, come out, wherever you are... come out, come out, or you'll end up in the tar...
— Beatrice Rose Roberts, Twin Loyalties: From the Chronicles of Tar Ponds City
You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.
— Sandra Dallas, A Quilt for Christmas
Just because a child doesn’t have both parents raising him or her, doesn’t mean that child becomes half the person they were meant to be. One wonderful parent can love enough for two, and love will always be the biggest influence in a child’s life.
— Ron Baratono
Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about controlabout who issnapping the whip, who is saying no, and who is saying go. Censorship's bottom line is this: if the novel Christine offends me, I don't want just to make sure it's kept from my kid; I want to make sure it's kept from your kid, as well, and all the kids. This bit of intellectual arrogance, undemocratic and as old as time, is best expressed this way: "If it's bad for me and my family, it's bad for everyone's family."Yet when books are run out of school classrooms and even outof school libraries as a result of this idea, I'm never much disturbed not as a citizen, not as a writer, not even as a schoolteacher . . . which I used to be. What I tell kids is, Don't get mad, get even. Don't spend time waving signs or carrying petitions around the neighborhood. Instead, run, don't walk, to the nearest nonschool library or to the local bookstore and get whatever it was that they banned. Read whatever they're trying to keep out of your eyes and your brain, because that's exactly what you need to know.
— Stephen King
Let truth be told. The more we allow water to be controlled, bottled and sold — the more we sell the security of our sons, daughters and souls. He who controls the water, controls us all. Water is the true gold.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
A child thinks and acts like a child. But when you are grown, you act and think like an adult. Too many people are still childish and immature and fail to realize it's a setback in their lives.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children.
— Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
She kept hoping something would change, but she knew she'd lost him to a world she could never be part of. So instead she pretended. Pretended to be strong. Pretended everything was alright. Pretended for Michael, for herself, but most of all for Willow. Because Willow loved Michael, and he, her – that much was obvious.
— Dominique Wilson, That Devil's Madness
You know about witches, wizards. You can envision dragons, even if you presently think you are above believing in them. You doubt magic, but you have a word for it. Isn't that a strangeness that wears at you? All these things that you know all about, but you think you are above. Did you used to be able to shape the spell children use to find lost things in the grass? Did you always know to look at the sky, at stars, when you make your wishes? Who taught you the things your soul has always known?
— Thomm Quackenbush, Don't Stop Believing
My grandmother, a dim, stern figure, named her children Lily and Violet, which I guess from seeing a picture of my mother's paved, ugly backyard, was the nearest she came to a garden.
— Emma Joy Crone, Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening
It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected.
— Shannon L. Alder
Sock Monsters Pay-It-Forward to offer hospitalized children a chance to smile, if only for a while!
— Dalene Davies, Sock Monsters Invade Earth: Interactive
It isn't just children who need heros.
— Tamora Pierce, Tricksters
I guess I don't believe you can have it all. I don't believe any of us can. In fact, I believe the very expression having it all is not only a myth but also a symptom of how sick we are in our contemporary culture. Nobody gets to have it all...You will have one thing or another depending on what choice you make. Or you will have both things in limited amounts, and that might turn out to be perfect, just exactly the life you want'" (175).
— Pam Houston, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
She kept hoping something would change, but she knew she'd lost him to a world she could never be part of. So instead she pretended.Pretended to be strong.Pretended everything was alright.Pretended for Michael, for herself, but most of all for Willow. Because Willow loved Michael, and he, her – that much was obvious
— Dominique Wilson, That Devil's Madness
I might be asked, ‘Do you equally reject the approach which begins with the question “What do modern children need?” — in other words, with the moral or didactic approach?’ I think the answer is Yes. Not because I don’t like stories to have a moral: certainly not because I think children dislike a moral. Rather because I feel sure that the question ‘What do modern children need?’ will not lead you to a good moral. If we ask that question we are assuming too superior an attitude. It would be better to ask ‘What moral do I need?’ for I think we can be sure that what does not concern us deeply will not deeply interest our readers, whatever their age. But it is better not to ask the question at all. Let the pictures tell you their own moral. For the moral inherent in them will rise from whatever spiritual roots you have succeeded in striking during the whole course of your life. But if they don’t show you any moral, don’t put one in.
— C.S. Lewis, Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories
Finally, only her and Benji and the solitude she craved. But with solitude came feelings. Anger. Hovering between life and death. Wanting one, then the other. Hating Michael. Grieving for him because she'd loved him so. But most of all grieving for Willow until the pain became so great that she welcomed the numbness back as if a long-lost lover.
— Dominique Wilson, That Devil's Madness
USA schools know that computer electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions, WiFi and campus cell towers are radiation poisoning the children and the government is determined to keep on doing it.
— Steven Magee, Health Forensics
There's a big moon shining on the yard, chalking our way onto the lane and along the road. Kinsella takes my hand in his.As soon as he takes it, I realise my father has never once held my hand, and some part of me wants Kinsella to let me go so I won't have to feel this.It's a hard feeling but as we walk along I begin to settle and let the difference between my life at home and the one I have here be.He takes small steps so we can walk in time. I think about the woman in the cottage, of how she walked and spoke, and conclude that there are huge differences between people.
— Claire Keegan
If you control the children, you control the future.
— Michel Houellebecq
There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch.
— Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
Children should be able to live a life free from electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure and radio frequency (RF) radiation pollution and it is time that we all took a stand against this.
— Steven Magee, Toxic Health
Mike stood in-line, waiting for the mealtime muck that passed for lunch at his school canteen. He knew he was getting close to the front now, as he tightly held his tray. Not just because he could see this as you might expect, but because he could smell Margery the school cook’s body odour. The children at the front were already holding their breath. You could see a line of pink faces close to him, to red, then purple closest to Margery. Only when they left at the end did they breathe for air and turn back to their normal colour again, like a deep sea diver after a long plunge. “Margery the Meal Murderer” was her name for most school kids.
— L.P. Donnelli, Back on Track
If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.
— Beatrix Potter
Adults, waiting for tomorrow, move in a present behind which is yesterday or the day before yesterday or at most last week: they don't want to think about the rest. Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.
— Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend