Children
Quotes - Mothers and their children are in a category all their own
“The
child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.”
―
Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
“She
moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but
when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting.”
―
Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
“Breasts
are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and
sexuality.”
―
Iris Marion Young
“Mothers
and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong
in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
―
Gail Tsukiyama, Dreaming Water
“There's
nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even
have to matter what they're laughing about.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“Lastly,
she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the
after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her
riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would
gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager
with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long
ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure
in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer
days.”
―
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Women
without children are also the best of mothers, often, with the
patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with
children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain
precious aunts. Women who are not mothering their own children have the clarity
and focus to see deeply into the character of children webbed by family. A
child is fortuante who feels witnessed as a peron,outside relationships with
parents by another adult.”
―
Louise Erdrich, The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
“You
crushed us to build your monarchy on the backs of our blood and bone. Your
mistake wasn't keeping us alive. it was thinking we'd never fight back”
―
Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone
“I
was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.”
―
Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
“That's
most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I was
weeping for an altogether different reason. When I watched you dancing that
day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific,
efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh,
cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her
breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and
she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It
wasn't really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke
my heart. And I've never forgotten.”
―
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
“Let
us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds
simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to
say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for
life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.”
―
Brad Pitt
“Ô,
Wanderess, Wanderess
When
did you feel your
most
euphoric kiss?
Was
I the source
of
your greatest bliss?”
―
Roman Payne
“Children
who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk
failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious,
fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves.
This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for
ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to
invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives.”
―
Susan Forward, Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming
Your Life
“All
that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a
soft place to land.”
―
Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches
“We
must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.”
―
Harry Edwards
“Children
show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.”
―
Michael Jackson
“You
know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused
for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true,
some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. At
birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information,
no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard
drive, or in my case "head drive" that starts the corruption of the
files.”
―
Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
“I
think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your
own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.”
―
Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely
Patriot
“He
believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant.”
―
Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
“Children
have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.”
―
C.S. Lewis
