CHILDREN QUOTES VIII

quotations about children

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

FREDERICK SHEPPERD

Electricity on the Farm


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

HONORE DE BALZAC

Letters of Two Brides


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

HOMER SIMPSON

"The Wandering Juvie", The Simpsons


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

CHARLES LAMB

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


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

BILL COSBY

Fatherhood


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

ROSEANNE BARR

"Bird is the Word", Roseanne


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

ALBUS DUMBLEDORE

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban


Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

BARBARA WALTERS

How to Talk with Practically Anybody About Practically Anything


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

STEPHANIE MARTSON

The Magic of Encouragement


Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long


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

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful


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

JOHN LOCKE

Some Thoughts Concerning Education


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

GUY BELLAMY

The Man Who Won

Tags: Guy Bellamy


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

COLLEEN PARRO

PBS interview


There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"There Was a Little Girl"


[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. They don't know what anything is, so they have to make it up. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves.

FRAN LEBOWITZ

The Paris Review, summer 1993


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

RAY ROMANO

Everything and a Kite


That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterward makes him a manager of life.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between, to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together.

HANNAH ARENDT

The Human Condition


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

IRVIN D. YALOM

When Nietzsche Wept