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If you work with or around children, you often hear a lot about how resilient they are. It's true; I've met children who've been through things that would drive most adults to the brink. They look and act, most of the time, like any other children. In this sense – that they don't succumb to despair, that they don't demand a space for their pain – it's very true that children are resilient. But resiliency only means that a thing retains its shape. That it doesn't break, or lose its ability to function. It doesn't mean a child forgets the time she shared in the backyard with her mother gardening, or the fun they had together watching Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the Astro. It just means she learns to bear it. The mechanism that allowed Lisa Sample to keep her head above water in the wak of her mother's departure has not been described or cataloged by scientists. It's efficient, and flexible, and probably transferable from one person to another should they catch the scent on each other. But the rest of the details about it aren't observable from the outside. You have to be closer than you really want to get to see how it works.
— John Darnielle, Universal Harvester
Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
For a child, no hand is stronger and softer than the hand which touches her lovingly!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The children of violently unhappy marriages, like my mother, are often hamstrung for life, but the children of happier marriages have problems too - all the worse, perhaps, because they don't have virtue on their side.
— Lorna Sage, Bad Blood
Parenthood is a walk in the park...A park full of scorpions that you can't leave without jumping through fiery hoop on a pogo stick.
— Brenda Lochinger, I'm Squirrely!
Is the selfishness of children really so different from our own? During the summer in the country we curse the rain, while the farmers are crying out for it.
— Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh
We play hide-and-seek, wade into her ponds to fill jam jars with writhing tadpoles, and cavort with her pack of dogs, named Brandy, Whiskey, Lager, so that just calling the pack makes one feel light-headed and drunk.
— Nayomi Munaweera, Island of a Thousand Mirrors
The Gray Man hated his current rental car. He got the distinct impression it hadn't been handled enough by humans when it was young, and now it would never be pleasant to be around.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
Our children serve as the greatest reminder that kindness is the greatest service.
— Jasimen Phillips
What is the meaning of "APPARENT "...? You will know the meaning when you become one...
— kjforce
Sometimes, when you are busy and children ask funny questions, you don’t think so much. You just answer quickly so they will leave you alone. If you don’t answer, they will just keep asking or they will go and do something very bad.
— Jinat Rehana Begum, First Fires
I struggle to discover what these silent sons of mine want, but words have always failed me. They are sullen even as they tell me they are okay. I know they are lying but there is nothing I can do.
— Jinat Rehana Begum, First Fires
It’s no secret that kids thrive when they have meaningful conversations with caring adults. But in our busy world, it’s not easy to find ways to make this happen, so I developed READ TOGETHER/DO TOGETHER™ to help parents and grandparents create those magic moments.
— Kate Boehm Jerome
Go," said the count deliberately, "go, dear friend, but promise me, if you meet with any obstacle to remember that I have some power in this world; that I am happy to use that power in the behalf of those I love; and that I love you, Morrel.""I will remember it," said the young man, "as selfish children recollect their parents when they want their aid. When I need your assistance, and the moment may come, I will come to you, count.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Children are excellent judges of character, you know
— Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
It became my mission to work with young people to help show them the way, not save them! But help them understand that there are choices that can be made that will make the difference for the rest of their lives.
— Jose A. Aviles, Peer Mentorship in High School: A Comprehensive Guide to Implementing a Successful Peer Mentorship Program in Your School
The first sound a child hears is very important. It determines character. A Muslim child always hears the Azan first. Words in praise of God. Words to live by.
— Jinat Rehana Begum, First Fires
Your child is least interested in what the report card says. All that matters to him / her is what you say on seeing the report card.
— Manoj Arora, Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always
But one day, when Toby is old enough, I will take down a shoe box from a shelf where it is kept, and I will tell him again the story of his sister, Isabel Margaret Cavendish, the girl who came before.
— J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before
Children are the best recorders of information - they miss nothing
—  but they are the poorest interpreters.
The joy of success lies in the process or journey -- not so much on the destination, because one destination opens the door for another. It's like the beauty of watching a blossoming flower ... a bird taking flight for the first time or a child taking the first step ... Enjoy your process today as I am.
— Val Uchendu
All adults should strive to be more like children.
— Lorin Morgan-Richards
Many children are naturally picky eaters. It may even be genetic, or developmental. But given a range of healthy choices, children will choose a balanced diet—so long as junk food isn't included in the mix. Children are tempted by sweets and fried food just as much as we are.
— Joanna Faber, How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
Most people tend to excuse themselves with the opportunities they have in life, with how many years of school they have, with the people around them. And in doing so, they fail in realizing many other things, such as the fact that not many are lucky enough to give birth to a world bestseller on spirituality, wealth and success in life. Yes, your child may be a little reincarnation of an awesome buddhist monk, of an alchemist or a famous knight templar. Why most people can’t see these things, and keep looking at the past for answers, is something that still puzzles me.
— Robin Sacredfire
Did they love me? The question is beside the point, somehow. Certainly they each spoiled me, mainly by giving me the false impression that I was entitled to attention nearly all the the time. They played. THEY were like children, if you consider that one of the things about being a child is that you are a parasite of sorts and have to brazen out self-righteously. I want. They were good at wanting and I shared much more common ground with them than with my mother when I was three or four years old.
— Lorna Sage, Bad Blood
It is important for the children of God to know their active civil position in critical times in their country
— Sunday Adelaja
Only redeemed children of God can become redeemers for their people
— Sunday Adelaja
Christians need to realize that they are free children of the almighty God
— Sunday Adelaja
God’s word guarantees our victory, instead of shame, he gives His children victory
— Sunday Adelaja
Miracles are not for grown men, they are for children or unbelievers.
— Sunday Adelaja
Miracles are not for matured men, they are for children or for unbelievers.
— Sunday Adelaja
Children are children.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Gee, I wonder who you could be referring to?" Owen said. "I mean you," Erebus said. "I just did not wish to be rude." "All you've been is rude." Owen muttered just under a whisper. "Some minds are more capable than others." Erebus smiled at Hugh.
— Karen Ann Wirtz, A Game of Truths
She's wonderful and soulful. She has a sly sense of humor. I've seen her deliver a funnier joke with a single silent raise of her eyebrow than many stand up comedians. She guards a very sensitive heart. Any human suffering brings her to tears. She's smart. Talk down to her and find yourself mentally slapped. She's an excellent judge of character, and seems to know an original spirit from a forgery every time. Cross boundaries with her...in any improper way and suffer the wrath of a lion. ... She's principled and firm. Rude behavior doesn't materialize in her presence. She's a grown-up who fully sees and knows children as citizens, and people, and souls. And because she respects children, all children seem to respect her.
— Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Our children... have a passionate need for the dimension of transcendence, mysticism, way-outness. We're not offering it to them legitimately. The tendency of the churches to be relevant and more-secular-than-thou does not answer our need for the transcendent. As George Tyrrell wrote about a hundred years ago, "If a [man's] craving for the mysterious, the wonderful, the supernatural, be not fed on true religion, it will feed itself on the garbage of any superstition that is offered to it.
— Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet
Each day in this country, twenty-three hundred children are reported missing.
— Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone
From the corners of her mouth, thick yellow goo bubbles. It matches the mess between Vesper's fingers, the slime on her chin, on her legs, the blobs that randomly pepper things, the blast radius massive, confounding
— Peter Newman
It is the uninformed that willfully give their children wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation toys.
— Steven Magee
History repeated itself. The 'don't do the things I did' mantra was tiresome pish. The best way to make sure your children don't grow up as cunts is not to be one yourself - or not to let them SEE you being one. This is easier as a sober artist in Santa Barbara than as an alcoholic jailbird in Leith.
— Irvine Welsh, The Blade Artist
One of the happiest moments in a father's life is when his children treat him like a brother.
— Jorge P. Guerrero
We create our work for children not because they're "cute," but because they're human beings, deserving of respect.
— Mo Willems
Many of the things that grownups have chosen to ignore, the child understands deeply.
— R. A. Delmonico
Can these signs and symbols still speak? Images, memories, stories, and objects all carry the past into the present. As we think about these messages from the past, we might wonder, too, about what kind of signs we are leaving for the future. How will our children's children know of us? What markers of our passing do we leave upon the land? Some of these signs, because of the material they're made from, or the care taken in making them, may last longer than others and have different stories to tell.
— Ari Berk & Carolyn Dunn, Coyote Speaks: Wonders of the Native American World
Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.
— Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.
— Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
A warm house is the best New Year present for every child!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen.
— Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall
Who shows a child, just as they are? Who sets itin its constellation, and gives the measureof distance into its hand? Who makes a child’s deathout of grey bread, that hardens, - or leaves itinside its round mouth like the coreof a shining apple? Killers areeasy to grasp. But this: death,the whole of death, before life,to hold it so softly, and not live in anger,cannot be expressed.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
...in order to achieve improved outcomes for families at risk, a paradigm shift is required so that unequal outcomes for families and children are seen as social injustices, rather than as products of individual dysfunction or deficit
— Philip Slee
Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse.
— Criss Jami
Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
Poets and children," said Sylvan. "We are the same really. When you can't find a poet, find a child. Remember that.
— Patricia MacLachlan, The Poet's Dog
This is my favorite part of the day. “Good morning, Class Two C,” I say. The entire class leaps up and sings out, “Good morning, miss!” Twenty-three faces are smiling at me. Sometimes they shout it with so much conviction that I laugh.
— Jamie Zeppa, Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan
The Art of Writing for Children is the knowledge of what is significant to them
— Suzy  Davies, Snugs The Snow Bear
I’ve just been transferred to Kanglung,” I say. They look at me to see if I am joking, and then they look at each other. There is a long, terrible silence and we all look at the floor. Karma Dorji wipes his runny nose on his sleeve and looks up. “Oh, miss,” he says sadly. “Please don’t go.”“Just a minute,” I say, and go into the bathroom. I latch the door and turn on the tap full force. When the water is running noisily, I lean my hot forehead against the damp, flaking concrete, and cry.
— Jamie Zeppa, Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan
The zeal of kids is to explore! Until you know how to sustain the real interest of your child, the real interest of your child shall be sustained by something else!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
I had a cat I could not see,Because it stayed in back of me.It was a very loyal pet-It's sad we never really met.I had a nice petWho I never met,Remember it always stayed behind me. And I'm sure it was a cat, too.
— Peggy Rathmann, Ruby The Copycat
The child is aware of unlimited potential, and this munificence is one of the joys of creativity.Those of use who struggle in our own ways, small or great, trickles or rivers, to create, are constantly having to unlearn what the world would teach us...
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
It's our children who teach us how to be parents.
— Susie Morgenstern, Secret Letters From 0 To 10
The hard and unexpected part is the realization not just that my son is not here but that the boy he was is gone forever. I would give anything to have them both back. But of course that cannot be. Life moves on. Kids grow up and move away, and if you don't know this already, believe me, it happens faster than you can imagine.
— Bill Bryson, I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
Small children can be startled by the most mundane of noises. A car door from a distance can sound like the sky falling down when heard for the very first time.
— Ulysses Brave, The Wit and Wisdom of Cats and Kittens
Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done anything to me.
— Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
We grow old judging othersAnd ourselvesUntil life humbles usAnd makes scared children of usLonging to hold another’s handTo hear their kind words And witness their kind deeds done on our behalf.But like children,We sabotage everythingFor nothing satisfies usUntil life crumbles usAnd we are no more.
— Kamand Kojouri
We begin to understand that to co-parent is to one day look up and notice that you are on a roller coaster with another human being. You are in the same car, strapped down side by side and you can never, ever get off. There will never be another moment in your lives when your hearts don't rise and fall together, when your stomach doesn't churn in tandem, when you stop seeing huge hills emerge in the distance and simultaneously grab the sides of the car and hold on tight. No one except for the one strapped down beside you will ever understand the particular thrills and terrors of your ride.
— Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior
For the first time in decades … For the first time in decades, India is experiencing a Revolution.For the first time in decades, there is status quo disruption.For the first time in decades, our Soldiers are receiving the reverence they must get.For the first time in decades, national interest matters more than personal interest.For the first time in decades, the strength of WE is more than self proclaimed VIP Few.For the first time in decades, corrupt politicians are worried about people standing in queueFor the first time in decades, let us try not to get brainwashed in inconvenience debate.For the first time in decades, let us not fall prey to tactics of bait.For the first time in decades, we are up in arms against dishonest coward.For the first time in decades, India is feeling empowered.For the first time in decades, we have an opportunity to rise above caste, creed and religion.For the first time in decades, we are hopeful for the bright future of next generation.
— Ketan Waghmare
Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish.
— Abhijit Naskar
There's no more secure investment in the next generation than your prayers for your children!
— Elizabeth George, The Remarkable Women of the Bible: And Their Message for Your Life Today
Without them, one’s status as an adult is never secure; a childless adult creates adulthood for himself , and as exhilarating as it often is, it is also a state of perpetual insecurity
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
A lot of the time, we’re simply having too much fun to even notice how tired and busy we are.I could be wrong, but sometimes it seems to me that there’s too much talk about how difficult being a parent is, and too little talk about the sheer, unbelievable, indescribable, truly mystical adventurous fun of the whole thing. To the point that we risk becoming conditioned to expect parenting to be merely difficult, and to interpret those inevitable times where it is difficult, and we're not having any fun, as being just how it is.But it isn’t. Or, at least, it won't be, if we don't let it.
— can't remember
Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise.
— Abhijit Naskar
Never put a single thought of weakness in the flourishing minds of the children. Fill them up with vigour and compassion, for their character will define the future of the entire human species.
— Abhijit Naskar
There are three things in this world that engender deep emotional bonds between people. They are health, wealth and children.
— Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Children are more able to objectively synthesize a story involving vampires, monsters, or dragons due to the distance afforded by the fantastical elements than they are a story revolving around horrors committed by human beings.
— Joseph Abbruscato, The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature: Essays on Stories from Grimm to Gaiman
I wuz bad. I did not meen to be. I wanted to see the litle peeple who lives in the radio. I could see the lits on. The radio fel on the flor. The lites won't even werk an thos peeple is ded.
— Beatrice Culleton, In Search of April Raintree - Critical Edition
Help your fatherAs he ages And loses his strengthFor it was he who sheltered youAnd protected you from the stormsKhoiSan Book of Wisdom
— rassool jibraeel snyman
You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.
— Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder
Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.
— Ian McEwan, Atonement
Even when our children are still young and defenseless, we feel intimations of their departure. We find ourselves staring at them with nostalgia, wistful for the person they're about to no longer be.
— Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Children are touched by heaven—their every breath, every laugh, every touch a sip of water to the desert wanderer. I could not have known this as a child, but I know it as a mother, a truth I learned as my own heart grew, bent, danced, and broke for each of my children
— Nadia Hashimi, When the Moon is Low
That we shall use every discovery of science in the preservation of our children's health goes without saying; but we shall do more than this - we shall give them a free start, not loading them up with our own ideas and experiences, nor advising them to live according to our lights. We were burned in the fire here and there, but - who knows? - fire may not burn our children, and if we warn them away from it they may end by never growing warm. We will not even inflict our cynicism on them as the sentimentality of our fathers was inflicted on us. The most we will do is urge a little doubt, asking that the doubt be exercised on our ideas as well as on all the mortal things in this world.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Short Autobiography
It'll be when you first learn to walk that I get daily demonstrations of the asymmetry in our relationship. You'll be incessantly running off somewhere, and each time you walk into a door frame or scrape your knee, the pain feels like it's my own. It'll be like growing an errant limb, an extension of myself whose sensory nerves report pain just fine, but whose motor nerves don't convey my commands at all. It's so unfair: I'm going to give birth to an animated voodoo doll of myself.
— Ted Chiang
Having children is a lottery and you never know what you are going to draw out. Perhaps it is as well I got none.
— G.B. Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever.
— Abhijit Naskar
As a grown-up, you have the widest array of constant struggles and battles you need to win. Yet, the most challenging is making a child know he or she is the noblest and most gratifying cause of all.
— Zoran Stojkovski
a manual for how to build a mentally ill child
— David Foster Wallace
Children naturally ask all kinds of questions and take a long time to tell their stories, and in millions of homes the parents are doing something else as they reply, “Yes, yes, I see.” And in millions of homes, the parents are surprised when their children don’t listen to them.Those little bright eyes know when your attention is wandering. When they are telling you the news from school, give your full attention. Everything else can be set aside for the moment. You are teaching your children to listen to you.
— Eknath Easwaran, Take Your Time: How to Find Patience, Peace, and Meaning
You don't have a good story until something deviates from the expected," says McAdams. "And raising children leads to some pretty unexpected happenings.
— Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
Someone had given my daughter a doctor's kit. Carefully, she takes her own temperature, places the pressure cuff around her arm. Then she takes the cuff off and examines it. "Would you like to be a doctor when you grow up?" I ask her. She looks at me oddly. "I'm already a doctor," she says.
— Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation
Children always give this simple message: Be natural, be sincere, be yourself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
25. Whenever two human beings spend time together, sooner or later they will probably irritate one another. This is true of best friends, married couples, parents and children, or teachers and students. The question is: How do they respond when friction occurs? There are four basic ways they can react:•	They can internalize the anger and send it downward into a memory bank that never forgets. This creates great pressure within and can even result in disease and other problems.•	They can pout and be rude without discussing the issues. This further irritates the other person and leaves him or her to draw his or her own conclusions about what the problem may be.•	They can blow up and try to hurt the other person. This causes the death of friendships, marriages, homes, and businesses.•	Or they can talk to one another about their feelings, being very careful not to attack the dignity and worth of the other person. This approach often leads to permanent and healthy relationships.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken.
— Natalia Ginzburg, The Little Virtues
This boy needs a dog.What makes you say that?He needs someone or something to play with besides his phone and an old man and an old woman doddering around.
— Kent Haruf, Our Souls at Night
Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
I believe that if children fall in love with wildlife they will grow up wanting to protect it.
— Imogen  Taylor, The POWEs and The Disappearing Tusks
32. Before you criticize your parents for their failures and mistakes, ask yourself: “Will I really do that much better with my own children?” The job is tougher than it looks, and mistakes are inevitable!
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
As one attains the age of 18 having fully acquired the basic education, one becomes responsible for whatever decision he makes, whatever opinion he chooses to accept and whatever style of life he chooses to live.Above age 18, the waywardness of a child depends on the child.
— OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
Thus, we knew at the onset of the sexual revolution back in 1968 that this day of disease and promiscuity would come. It is here, and what we do with our situation will determine how much we and our children will suffer in the future. God created the moral basis for the universe before He made the heavens and the earth. His concept of right and wrong was not an afterthought that came along with the Ten Commandments. No, it was an expression of God’s divine nature and was in force before “the beginning.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Jake accompanied us as well, having arrived in Akhia shortly before the excavation team departed. I did not tell him our destination until we were safely away from civilization, and found my caution abundantly justified: he whooped and danced about so much, he fell off his camel and broke his left arm.
— Marie Brennan, In the Labyrinth of Drakes
Sumone Yiden Smiff was a businessman of note. Was, past tense. Through years of sweat and swearing and amazingly smart (or lucky) deals he’d built up a mining empire that spanned the sum of known space. At 74 years, he had reached the apex of a career stretching half a century. His companies mined precious commodities like Impervium, Obstinatium and Bitanium. He wasn’t really famous, or ostentatious. In fact he only ever made the cover of Fortune One Billion once, twenty-five years ago. He’d never married, had lots of children – light-years apart, apparently.
— Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer
She felt if she ever had children she would love them no less when they were twenty than when they were two; they might need you more at twenty, she thought. What do you really need when you're two? In the hospital, the babies were the easiest patients. The older they got, the more they needed; and the less anyone wanted or loved them.
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
Children who are ill, in their innocence and plight, teach adults many lessons, and one of those lessons is that ‘Life must go on. Face it. Live it. Enjoy it. Despite all the odds.’ That is bravery, in the eyes of a sick child.
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
We're only happy--truly happy--when it's forever after, but only children live in a world where things can last forever.
— José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons
Down the hall the children slept three to a bedroom; Hattie could almost hear them growing, their wrists lengthening and poking out beyond the cuffs of their sleeves, their feet outgrowing their shoes, their shoulders widening and pulling the fabric of their coats taut.
— Ayana Mathis, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
I’ve spent my entire existence watching over children, trying to keep the evil from tainting them. I look at the kids and see their inherent goodness, their innocence, and their compassion. They’re born that way. They only change, only turn their backs on the world, when the world turns their back on them.
— J.M. Darhower, Extinguish
...home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess.
— Kate Morton, The House at Riverton
Sadly, history shows us that people literally scrambled their children's brains with heavy exposure to screens at young ages. Developing primate brains are wired to interact with others in a real environment, learning the enormous range of human behaviours from copying the people they love and trust, not staring mindlessly at images.
— EXO Books, The Last Day of Captain Lincoln
The roses started him thinking, how the oddity of them was beautiful and how that oddity was contrived to give them value. “It just struck me – clear and complete all at once – no long figuring about it.” He realized that children could be designed. “And I thought to myself, now that would a rose garden worthy of a man’s interest.”We children would smile and hug him and he would grin around at us and send the twins for a pot of cocoa from the drink wagon and me for a bag of popcorn because the red-haired girls would just throw it out when they finished closing the concession anyway. And we would all be cozy in the warm booth of the van, eating popcorn and drinking cocoa and feeling like Papa’s roses.
— Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
I refuse to lie to children. I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence.
— Maurice Sendak
Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.
— Adele Devine, Flying Starts for Unique Children: Top Tips for Supporting Children with SEN or Autism When They Start School
How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers. How they take the pockmarked world and turn a delicate inversion, making something brainy and rule-bound and smooth, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to repeat the process.
— Don DeLillo, Underworld
Love she had found, had a strange way of multiplying. Doubling, trebling itself, so that, as each child arrived, there was always more than enough to go around.
— Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers
She had loved them all, her children. Loved each one the best, but for different reasons.
— Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers
Help me to love them better and more. Fill in the cracks that formed when I failed to be careful enough with them. Let their innocent minds remember the happy times more often than they remember the sad. Fill them with your love and grace.
— Hallie Lord, On the Other Side of Fear: How I Found Peace
The general public of the wireless western nations are very tolerant to the radiation poisoning of the next generation of children by their corporate controlled governments.
— Steven Magee
I regard taking healthy sea level adapted children to the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea as a form of child abuse.
— Steven Magee
Love your children while they are young. Because they grow up soon enough, and then… then the have no need of you.
— Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
People generally see what they look for and hear what they listen for, and they have a right to subject their children to it.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
You share the same destiny as everyone else, the same history, the same hardship, the same rot, the same Tram beer, the same dog kebabs, the same narrative as soon as you come into the world. You start out baby-chick or slim-jim or child-soldier. You graduate to endlessly striking student or desperado. If you've got a family on the trains, then you work on the trains; otherwise like a ship you wash up on the edge of hope - a suicidal, a carjacker, a digger with dirty teeth, a mechanic, a street sleeper, a commission agent, an errand boy employed by for-profit tourists, a hawker of secondhand coffins. Your fate is already sealed like that of the locomotives carrying spoiled merchandise and the dying.
— Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83
Note to adults who work with children: Tiny eyes watching yourstiny ears hearing every wordtiny tongues repeating every spoken word ....that is how I learnthat is how I become.Your senses hold mine.Your arms hold my every sense.Your perspective frames mine.You teach me what the world isand what the world can be.My goodness grows from yours.Take good care .... tiny hearts beating ... repeating ... tiny little souls growing.
— Cathrine Lødøen
Children are like clay in the hands of teachers. Like a sculptor we can chisel and carve their personalities with our behavior.
— Balroop Singh
When feeding your children, do you want to fill their tummies? Or nourish their bodies?
— Catherine Barnhoorn, Mila's Meals: The Beginning & The Basics
Just having children is a risk, Kate. We are gambling on the future, investing in the unknown with nothing but hope and blind faith. How can we keep our own safe when anyone else is in danger?
— Florence Engel Randall, The Watcher in the Woods
Reckless behavior, particularly in young boys, may be the uncontrolled expression of a legitimate, even Godly, desire to strive after great and noble deeds. And when the desire for adventure follows a God-honoring course, exciting things can happen.
— Hal and Melanie Young
It may be that mothers have a hard time discerning between when sons need comforting and when they need bucking up. Here's a rule of thumb: If he hasn't faced the trial yet, or he's in the midst of it - encourage him. If he's been to the wars and is limping home wounded - comfort him. Once the wounds are bound up, encourage him to rise and face the fight again.
— Hal and Melanie Young
A woman's body does a thousand different things, toils, runs, studies, fantasizes, invents, wearies, and meanwhile the breasts enlarge, the lips of the sex swell, the flesh throbs with a round life that is yours, your life, and yet pushes elsewhere, draws away from you although it inhabits your belly, joyful and weighty, felt as a greedy impulse and yet repellent, like an insect's poison injected into a vein.
— Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter
The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in experimentation and in exploration of their environments.
— Bertrand Russell
Children do not always appreciate their parents encouraging them to explore and grow. The selfishness of a child manifests itself in his or her intent to remain a child and never enter an adult world of distress, disappointment, and jadedly surrendering an envisioned life by making commitments that limit boundless options.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The heterosexual emotions of young children can find a natural, wholesome and innocent outlet with other children; in this form they are a part of play, and like all play, they afford a preparation for adult activities.
— Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals
Vic didn't have a car and probably spent a hundred and sixty hours a week at home. The house smelled of piss-soaked diapers and engine parts, and the sink was always full.In retrospect Vic was only surprised she didn't go crazy sooner. She was surprised that more young mothers didn't lose it. When your tits had become canteens and the soundtrack to your life was hysterical tears and mad laughter, how could anyone expect you to remain sane?
— Joe Hill, NOS4A2
Between Sylvia and me there existed as between my own mother and me - a sort of psychic osmosis which, at times, was very wonderful and comforting; at other times an unwelcome invasion of privacy (words from Aurelia Plath from the Introduction)
— Sylvia Plath, Letters Home
Men bore me
— Women abhor me
If we understand the signals they are giving us, middle school kids can be fun and adventurous. If wse can find it in our hearts to overlook some of their quirky and mysterious behaviors, we can find them to be energetic and curious about how the world works around them. If we see the world as they view it, we can take their hand and guide them across the narrow bridges and frightening valleys they see sprawling before them. And finally, if we can reveal the patience to talk with them about the issues that confuse and bedevil them, we can find a world open for discussion and journey.
— Dr. Kid Brain, Navigating the Turbulent Middle School Years: Common-Sense Solutions for Problems and Behaviors
Both men and women who have children as a rule regulate their lives largely with reference to them, and children cause perfectly ordinary men and women to act unselfishly in certain ways, of which perhaps life insurance is the most definite and measurable.
— Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals
He might have hurt me a little,' Atticus conceded, 'but sn, you'll understand folks a little better when you're older. A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr Cunnignham was part of a mob last night, but he ws still a man.Every mob in every little Souhern town is always made up of people you know - doesn't say much for them, does it?''I'll say ot, ' said Jem.'So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses, didn't it?' said Atticus. 'That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Have you ever heard a five-year-old recite the Pledge of Allegiance, Arthur? It's creepy as hell. Their enunciation is perfect, but they have no idea what kind of promise they're making, of what's being called for. No one tells you until later that breaking your words amounts to treason. No one tells you until later that you can't take it back. I was having my own treasonous thoughts as I drove. They were half formed, but went a little like this: asking something like that from a person ought not to be allowed.
— Alyson Foster, God Is an Astronaut
Children read their favorite books to death, she said. They are careless in their devotions. They rip the pages, scribble, and spill things on them. And they are demon book thieves.
— Jean Nathan, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
Children are like water
—  they don't much care where the stream takes them. They do nothing to avoid or follow the contours.
Good BonesLife is short, though I keep this from my children.Life is short, and I’ve shortened minein a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,a thousand deliciously ill-advised waysI’ll keep from my children. The world is at leastfifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservativeestimate, though I keep this from my children.For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,sunk in a lake. Life is short and the worldis at least half terrible, and for every kindstranger, there is one who would break you,though I keep this from my children. I am tryingto sell them the world. Any decent realtor,walking you through a real shithole, chirps onabout good bones: This place could be beautiful,right? You could make this place beautiful.
— Maggie Smith
You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color.
— Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic...
— J.K. Rowling
A generation of children is not only being raised indoors, but is being confined to even smaller spaces. Jane Clark, a University of Maryland professor of kinesiology . . . calls them "containerized kids"--they spend more and more time in car seats, high chairs, and even baby seats for watching TV. When small children go outside, they're often placed in containers--strollers--and pushed by walking or jogging parents. . . Most kid-containerizing is done for safety concerns, but the long term health of these children is compromised. (35)
— Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
No children are so divine that they do not need responsible parenting and be taught proper manners.
— Anni Sennov, Balance on All Levels with the Crystal and Indigo Energy
Some parents bring their children up and, I suppose, others let them down.
— Stacey  Lee, Outrun the Moon
The problem nowadays is that children have become too much the center of attention. Their parents, their families, everybody around them feels a need to put them on a pedestal. So much effort is invested in boosting their self-esteem that they are made to feel special in and of themselves, without having done anything.
— Rafael Nadal, Rafa
The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men
Show them how to fly and they will shine upon the clear blue skies, show them where to fly and they will fly upon the skies
— Filios Sazeides
Courage sleeps within our heart waiting to be awoken.
— Wallace Kamens
Truly, nothing more resembles God's eyes than the eyes of a child; they see the world for the first time, and create it. Before this, the world is chaos. All creatures - animals, trees, men, stones; everything:forms, colors, voices, smells, lightning flashes - flow unexplained in front of the child's eyes (no, not in front of them, inside them), and he cannot fasten them down, cannot establish order. The child's world is made not of clay, to last, but of clouds. (Report to Greco)
— N. Kazantzakis
What I like most about children is that they are great advisors, yet they don't know it. And what I love about them is that they are vision bearers yet may not realize it.
— Gugu Mona
Being a single mother should not stop you from helping your children to reach their full potential.
— Gugu Mona
It is very sad to see children live like orphans while their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents.
— Gugu Mona
In my meditations, I find that nothing in life counts more than the happiness we can give others, the good that we can do. This is what we must teach our children, to think of others more than they think of themselves, for it is in this way they will find the most noble satisfaction of all. ~ Maurice Drouhin writing to his wife from prison in 1941
— Don Kladstrup, Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.
— Albert Camus
We need to substitute ‘trier’ for failure. The word ‘fail’ is closely related to the word fall. A child taking his first step falls, cries and then tries again. Why does he try again? Because he wants to, but does not, know the meaning of failure.
— Anup Kochhar, The Failure Project  -The Story Of Man's Greatest Fear
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him. Proverbs 23:24
— King James Bible
Women's magazines sadly remark that children can have a disruptive effect on the conjugal relationship, that the young wife's involvement with her children and her exhaustion can interfere with her husband's claims on her. What a notion- a family that is threatened by its children! Contraception has increased the egotism of the couple: planned children have a pattern to fit into; at least unplanned children had some of the advantages of contingency. First and foremost they were whether their parents liked it or not. In the limited nuclear family the parents are the principals and children are theirs to manipulate in a newly purposive way. The generation gap is being intensified in these families where children must not inconvenience their parents, where they are disposed of in special living quarters at special times of day, their own rooms and so forth. Anything less than this is squalor. Mother must not have more children than she can control: control means full attention for much of the day, then isolation.
— Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. A sterilized parent is a eunuch in his children's haremm. to be sure, I recognize that efficient contraception is necessary for sexual pleasure, and that sexual pleasure is necessary, but contraception for economic reasons is another matter. 'We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'. A sterilized parent is forever bound to those children he has, more than ever immobile and predictable, and those children are more securely bound to him. 'We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-discipline middle-class children who grow up to be professionals', for children manage to use up all the capital that is made available for that purpose, whatever proportion it may be of the family's whole income, just as housework expands to fill the time available. The sterilized parent is the ultimate domestic animal.
— Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
A Parent's insecurity is a Child's nightmare
— Goitsemang Mvula
when u stay behind ur children their confidence rise
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Through Faith: Living an Overcoming Life
My son hit his head on a couch and pushed it away. He never went near that couch again. It is amazing what and 1 year old boy can teach you about life.
— E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds
Wife: I want to have a child.Husband: I can't imagine bringing a child into this messed-up world.Wife: That's exactly the reason we should do it. We need to bring something good into this world to balance out the bad.
— Matt Kindt, MIND MGMT, Volume Six: The Immortals
The emergence of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity is where Autism was back in the 1970's and very few children had the condition. Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity must not be allowed to explode into the new epidemic that Autism has become.
— Steven Magee
High powered radio frequency (RF) transmitters really need to be reclassified as an industrial application and banned out of residential communities that have developing babies and children.
— Steven Magee
As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,For they are women's children, and we mother them again.Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!
— James Oppenheim
Generally it appears the case that, when faced with all life's problems, the baby, he wants to cry about everything, the child wants to question everything, the teenager wants to rebel against everything, the young adult wants to solve everything, the middle-aged adult wants to protect everything, and the elder wants to accept everything.
— Criss Jami
If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the ay a man might work for the right to have a family, children might grow up without the burden of gratitude for the gift of life which they never asked for.
— Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
It is true that some of the characters speak coarsely. That is because people speak coarsely in real life. Especially soldiers and hardworking men speak coarsely, and even our most sheltered children know that. And we all know, too, that those words really don't damage children much. They didn't damage us when we were young. It was evil deeds and lying that hurt us.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
You could get crickets to pop out of a book as a little, little girl, but now you have to relearn it? Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't.
— N.E. Bode, The Anybodies