CHILDREN QUOTES III

quotations about children

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The child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal.

LYMAN ABBOTT

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What is the son but an extension of the father?

FRANK HERBERT

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Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history.

RAY MERRITT

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The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

FRED G. GOSMAN

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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

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Children are God's Apostles, day by day
Sent forth to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

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All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

ERMA BOMBECK

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A child is a guest in the house, to be loved and respected -- never possessed, since he belongs to God.

J. D. SALINGER

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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

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The dumbest thing I ever did was not having children. Absolute dumbest thing. Even worse than selling my bassoon. I see the error now. My sister's kids are turning out great. They were shockingly spoiled when they were little, but now their true personalities have taken over and they're just nice calm tall young people with personalities. One is at Kenyon College studying something with lasers and the other is an intern at a dollhouse museum.

NICHOLSON BAKER

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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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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

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A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.

WALT DISNEY

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In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

BILL COSBY

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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

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For the first two years you're up to your elbows in poo and puke. Then for the next ten, you feed them and educate them, and nurse them through every disease known to man--and some only known to veterinary science. Then they shut themselves in their bedroom and play cruel music at you and shout through the keyhole that you don't understand them and they hate you.

LAURA THYME

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We know not what the child may become.

EDWARD COUNSEL

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Love not your children unequally; or if you do, show it not, lest you make the one proud, and the other envious, and both fools.

WELLINS CALCOTT

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Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

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