Children
Quotes - I've found what makes children happy
“And
that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our
children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint.
As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and
through.”
―
Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
“A
deceitful man will go as far as to trample all over a woman’s reputation and
spirit, in order to prove to his ex-love that he was faithful. The irony, is he
is still in love with his ex and the new woman in his life doesn’t even realize
it.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“You
don't treat me like a child."
He
smiled. "Of course I do, but you seem to have this ridiculous notion that
being treated like a child means to be treated with less respect than an
adult.”
―
Derek Landy, The Faceless Ones
“Like
lost children we live our unfinished adventures.”
―
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
“I've
found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous,
engaged adults.”
―
Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the
Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Young
girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said
to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to
them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not
dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.”
―
Michael Bassey Johnson, Scars Of Beauty
“We
all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't
want that. We want them to be like we are, or better than we are. We as humans
are very unimaginative in that sense. We aren't equipped for the possibility
that they might be worse. But I guess that would be asking too much. It must be
an evolutionary stopgap - if we were all so specifically, vividly aware of what
might go horribly wrong, we would none of us have children at all.”
―
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
“Each
song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never
written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?”
―
Michael Jackson
“There
are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.”
―
Robert Benchley, Pluck and Luck
“The
girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and
cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the
stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.”
―
Carl Gustav Jung, Man and His Symbols
“Loads
of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches,
aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror
haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.”
―
China Miéville
“All
of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a
house with a white carpet is one of them. ”
―
Erma Bombeck
“I
like children. If they're properly cooked.”
― W.
C. Fields
“A
man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man,”
―
Mario Puzo, The Godfather
“The
way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.”
―
Peggy O'Mara
“It
takes a female to have a baby,
It
takes a woman to raise a child,
It
takes a mother to raise them correctly,
It
takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“Like
a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all
thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on
my tongue.”
―
Kamand Kojouri
“Children
are very wise intuitively; they know who loves them most, and who only
pretends.”
―
V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
“I
can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her
stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over
them.”
―
Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“Your
children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits.
Sometimes the only ones.”
―
Anna Quindlen, Black and Blue
