Children
Quotes - You are always in my thoughts
“In
the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them
up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”
―
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“A
wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the
friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.”
―
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
“His
name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and
seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able
to master.”
―
Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“So
now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or
are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world
and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is
not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course.
This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher
never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem
a bit unreasonable - bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small
children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to
be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder…”
―
Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
“There's
a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something
you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a
no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach
kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard
until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.”
―
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
“You
are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any
given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you
are, because I keep you in my heart.”
―
Elizabeth Berg
“Your
children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's
longing for itself...
You
may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house
of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”
―
Kahlil Gibran
“In
their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If
we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way. ”
―
Michael Jackson
“A
child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“That
was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is
joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows.
When you are an adult...then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear. If children ran
the world, it would be a place of eternal bliss and cheer. Adults run the
world; and there is war, and enmity, and destruction unending. Adults who take
charge of things muck them up, and then produce a new generation of children
and say, "The children are the hope of the future." And they are
right. Children are the hope of the future. But adults are the damnation of the
present, and children become adults as surely as adults become worm food.
Adults
are the death of hope.”
―
Peter David, Tigerheart
“I
am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of
their children, even when they are afraid, even when their children are
adults.”
―
Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale
“The
greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that
gave birth to his children. It is because of her that you have the greatest
treasures in your life. You may have moved on, but your children have not. If
you can’t be her soulmate, then at least be thoughtful. Whom your children love
should always be someone that you acknowledge with kindness. Your children
notice everything and will follow your example.”
―
Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask for a More Vibrant
Marriage
“You
cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write
books that are of interest to them. ”
―
Maurice Sendak
“Having
children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken,
and there's a lot of throwing up.”
―
Ray Romano
“When
a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing
nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. ”
―
Erma Bombeck
“When
you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to
say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing
the talking also happen to be children.”
―
Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in
Afghanistan and Pakistan
“Was
it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when
you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one
hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman
who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me
over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts
made you more of a mother?
Both,
I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about
bearing witness to its life.”
―
Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
“They
want us to be afraid.
They
want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They
want us to barricade our doors
and
hide our children.
Their
aim is to make us fear life itself!
They
want us to hate.
They
want us to hate 'the other'.
They
want us to practice aggression
and
perfect antagonism.
Their
aim is to divide us all!
They
want us to be inhuman.
They
want us to throw out our kindness.
They
want us to bury our love
and
burn our hope.
Their
aim is to take all our light!
They
think their bricked walls
will
separate us.
They
think their damned bombs
will
defeat us.
They
are so ignorant they don’t understand
that
my soul and your soul are old friends.
They
are so ignorant they don’t understand
that
when they cut you I bleed.
They
are so ignorant they don’t understand
that
we will never be afraid,
we
will never hate
and
we will never be silent
for
life is ours!”
―
Kamand Kojouri
“It
was then that Hook bit him.
Not
the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite
helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the
first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he
comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will
love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever
gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.”
―
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
