Children
Quotes - Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to
punish
“Because
never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all
along--the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I
never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult
emotions and desires. And in writing _Ender's Game_, I forced the audience to
experience the lives of these children from that perspective--the perspective
in which their feelings and decisions are just as real and important as any
adult's. ... _Ender's Game_ asserts the personhood of children, and those who are
used to thinking of children in another way ... are going to find _Ender's
Game_ a very unpleasant place to live.”
―
Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
“Children
have always tumbled down rabbit holes, fallen through mirrors, been swept away
by unseasonal floods or carried off by tornadoes. Children have always
traveled, and because they are young and bright and full of contradictions,
they haven’t always restricted their travel to the possible. Adulthood brings
limitations like gravity and linear space and the idea that bedtime is a real
thing, and not an artificially imposed curfew. Adults can still tumble down
rabbit holes and into enchanted wardrobes, but it happens less and less with
every year they live. Maybe this is a natural consequence of living in a world
where being careful is a necessary survival trait, where logic wears away the
potential for something bigger and better than the obvious. Childhood melts,
and flights of fancy are replaced by rules. Tornados kill people: they don’t
carry them off to magical worlds. Talking foxes are a sign of fever, not guides
sent to start some grand adventure.
But
children, ah, children. Children follow the foxes, and open the wardrobes, and
peek beneath the bridge. Children climb the walls and fall down the wells and
run the razor’s edge of possibility until sometimes, just sometimes, the
possible surrenders and shows them the way to go home.”
―
Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky
“The
function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her
anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose
of the educators who thinks they knows best”
―
A.S. Neill
“When
we are no longer children we are already dead”
―
Constantin Brancusi
“Too
often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A
disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.”
―
Daniel J. Siegel, The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture
Your Child's Developing Mind
“Children
and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them”
―
Ginnetta Correli
“Loyalty
was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their
leader and a circus with elephants.”
―
Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter,
Witch
“Sometimes
parents don't find what they're looking for in their child, so they plant seeds
for what they'd like to grow there instead. I've witnessed this with the former
hockey player who takes his son out to skate before he can even walk. Or in the
mother who gave up her ballet dreams when she married, but now scrapes her
daughter's hair into a bun and watched from the wings of the stage. We are not,
as you'd expect, orchestrating their lives; we are not even trying for a second
chance. We are hoping that if this one thing takes root, it might take up
enough light and space to keep something else from developing in our children:
the disappointment we've already lived.”
―
Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
“From
her thighs, she gives you life
And
how you treat she who gives you life
Shows
how much you value the life given to you by the Creator.
And
from seed to dust
There
is ONE soul above all others --
That
you must always show patience, respect, and trust
And this
woman is your mother.
And
when your soul departs your body
And
your deeds are weighed against the feather
There
is only one soul who can save yours
And
this woman is your mother.
And
when the heart of the universe
Asks
her hair and mind,
Whether
you were gentle and kind to her
Her
heart will be forced to remain silent
And
her hair will speak freely as a separate entity,
Very
much like the seaweed in the sea --
It
will reveal all that it has heard and seen.
This
woman whose heart has seen yours,
First
before anybody else in the world,
And
whose womb had opened the door
For
your eyes to experience light and more --
Is
your very own MOTHER.
So,
no matter whether your mother has been cruel,
Manipulative,
abusive, mentally sick, or simply childish
How
you treat her is the ultimate test.
If
she misguides you, forgive her and show her the right way
With
simple wisdom, gentleness, and kindness.
And
always remember,
That
the queen in the Creator's kingdom,
Who
sits on the throne of all existence,
Is exactly
the same as in yours.
And
her name is,
THE
DIVINE MOTHER.”
―
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“The
world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The
world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little
blurry eyes strive greedily to take in as much light and love and colour and
detail as they can.
The
world is a coaxing whisper when the wind lips the trees, when the sea licks the
shore, when animals burrow into earth and people look up at the sympathetic
stars. The world is an admonishing roar when gales chase rainclouds over the
plains and whip up ocean waves, when people crowd into cities or intrude into
dazzling jungles.
What
right have we to carry our desperate mouths up mountains or into deserts? Do we
want to taste rock and sand or do we expect to make impossible poems from space
and silence? The vastness at least reminds us how tiny we are, and how much we
don't yet understand. We are mere babes in the universe, all brothers and
sisters in the nursery together. We had better learn to play nicely before
we're allowed out..... And we want to go out, don't we? ..... Into the distant
humming welcoming darkness.”
―
Jay Woodman, SPAN
“They
play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy
with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby
toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta
wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was
consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding
her in my arms could tame it.”
―
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
“It
was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care
to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“Don't
ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the
rest of your life.”
―
Joe Hill, Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows
“You
and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults.
Compatibility is for adults.''
''Compatibility
is for my Bluetooth and my car,'' Teresa replied. ''Only they get along just
fine, and my car never makes my bluetooth feel like shit.”
―
Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner
“You
can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had.
And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.”
―
Marshall B. Rosenberg
“Sometimes,
mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when
you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor.
They're just trying to give them a better life.”
―
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
“It
was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make
you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I
imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to
look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing.
Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.”
―
Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
“Casey
doesn't trust him."
"Casey
doesn't trust anyone," I replied. "He's paranoid like that. I mean,
come on, he's a werewolf who installed a nanny cam in his kids' room." I
pointed my spoon at Ali for emphasis. "A nanny cam.”
―
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Raised by Wolves
“Crooked
Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke,
pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger
of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my
cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear
no evil, for you have made the night my friend."
"Bless
the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace
and profit to his children.”
―
Scott Lynch, Red Seas Under Red Skies
“It
is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and
laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained
for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time to let children be children
again.”
―
L.R.Knost
