quotations about children
The soul is healed by being with children.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
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The Idiot
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
GARRISON KEILLOR
Leaving Home
Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history.
RAY MERRITT
Full of Grace
A child is a guest in the house, to be loved and respected -- never possessed, since he belongs to God.
J. D. SALINGER
"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters"
The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.
FRED G. GOSMAN
How to Be a Happy Parent ... In Spite of Your Children
Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.
WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE
The Christmas Mystery
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.
WALT DISNEY
attributed, The Quotable Walt Disney
Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember.
MARGARET DRABBLE
The Millstone
Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES
Reflections and Maxims
The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children.
ROBERTO BOLAÑO
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What is the son but an extension of the father?
FRANK HERBERT
Dune
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
FRAN LEBOWITZ
"Words Are Easy, Books Are Not", New York Times, August 10, 1994
Setting a good example for your children does nothing but increase their embarrassment.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Quotable Quotes: Wit and Wisdom from the Greatest Minds of Our Time
Boys have a period of mischief as much as they have measles or chicken-pox.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Seems parents and children spend half their lives not seeing eye to eye. By the time they do find some common ground, there's barely any time left to enjoy it.
LOREN BRAY
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.
EUGENE IONESCO
Present Past / Past Present
It is better to have only one son endowed with good qualities than a hundred devoid of them. For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!
WM. PAUL YOUNG
The Shack
Keep thou an open door between thy child's life and thine own.
MAUD LINDSAY
"The Closing Door", Mother Stories
Alligators have the right idea ... they eat their young.
IDA CORWIN
Mildred Pierce