Children
Quotes - Children are knives
“Look
at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not
harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the
advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if
they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don’t usually act in such a
manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is
finished. They can still play with that person the following day.”
―
Dalai Lama XIV
“Rebel
children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek
to smother your glory.”
―
Russell Brand
“Children
are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we
cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.”
―
Joanne Harris, The Girl with No Shadow
“My
best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is:
Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”
―
Frank Zappa
“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.
Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere,
and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are
good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you
are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The
important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.”
―
Walt Disney
“Indeed,
the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only
the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no
answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In
other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human
possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.”
―
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“You
can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'
IT'S
A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
'She's
a child!' shouted Crumley.
IT'S
EDUCATIONAL.
'What
if she cuts herself?'
THAT
WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“That's
the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children
far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your
own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the
tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.”
―
Ursula Hegi
“While
we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is
all about.”
―
Angela Schwindt
“What
exactly was the difference? He wondered to himself. And who decided which
people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?”
―
John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“Cleaning
your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk
before it stops snowing.”
―
Phyllis Diller
“No
man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the
end in their nature and education.”
―
Plato
“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
“Age
does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”
―
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Instead
of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people
are loathsome and some are delightful.”
―
Margaret Mead
“A
first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little
feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and
crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a
flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming
after--oh, that' s love by a different name.”
―
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
“Adults...struggle
desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of
everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly,
or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the
day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest
child: because it's not real.”
―
Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a
Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
“Two
worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always
to have it.”
―
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“There
is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than
the silence they leave when they are gone.”
―
Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns
“Love
children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to
soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.”
―
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
