Children Quotes - All children mythologize their Birth
“All
children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know
someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What
you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling
than a story.”
―
Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
“I
sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my
child & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I
carry that quiet with me all day long.”
―
Brian Andreas
“Before
I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six
children and no theories.”
―
John Wilmot
“If
we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of
children.”
―
Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal
Our Hearts and Homes
“There
are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same
laughter & noise.”
―
Brian Andreas
“The
biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did
not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment
is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three on
them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer
day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we
talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that
night. I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner,
bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting
it done a little less.”
―
Anna Quindlen, Loud and Clear
“It
is the custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in
their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their
proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day. If you could
keep awake (but of course you can’t) you would see your own mother doing this,
and you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying
up drawers. You would see her on her knees, I expect, lingering humorously over
some of your contents, wondering where on earth you had picked this thing up,
making discoveries sweet and not so sweet, pressing this to her cheek as if it
were as nice as a kitten, and hurriedly stowing that out of sight. When you
wake in the morning, the naughtinesses and evil passions with which you went to
bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind; and on the
top, beautifully aired, are spread out prettier thoughts, ready for you to put
on.”
―
J.M. Barrie
“It
is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible.”
―
T.H. White, The Once and Future King
“If
you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.”
―
Norman Douglas
“How
is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be
education that does it”
―
Alexandre Dumas
“If
I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses
would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through
windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only
to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need
compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the
forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet
sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip. ”
―
Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
“The
job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before
it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their
friends are broken.”
―
Justine Larbalestier, Zombies Vs. Unicorns
“I
feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're
an artist, by children if you're not.”
―
Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica
“Stories
are like children. They grow in their own way.”
―
Madeleine L'Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet
“Children
are capable of such open rudeness.”
―
Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society
“What
it means to be human is to bring up your children in safety, educate them, keep
them healthy, teach them how to care for themselves and others, allow them to
develop in their own way among adults who are sane and responsibile, who know
the value of the world and not its economic potential. It means art, it means
time, it means all the invisibles never counted by the GDP and the census
figures. It means knowing that life has an inside as well as an outside. And I
think it means love.”
―
Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods
“While
I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me
for the first time. It sounded like 'All lub boo,' but I didn't care. To
reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries.”
―
Jim Beaver, Life's That Way
“It
is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only
thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.”
―
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
“In
this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania,
quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for
quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for
quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy
times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his
own.”
―
Margaret Wise Brown
“America
used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if
"Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors
and baby daddies.”
―
Stephen Colbert, I Am America
