Children
Quotes - A man's immortality can be found in his children
“We pretend that we know our
children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that
cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter
is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the
curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the
right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a
thousand things she would never tell you.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change
of Heart
“The best baby-sitters, of
course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting
your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to
Florida.”
― Dave Barry
“The complexities of adult
life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able
to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they
are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be
childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies..”
― Mortimer J. Adler,
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“For his children, he would
move mountains.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The
Wrath and the Dawn
“The child who refuses to
travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique
capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey
my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as
a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to
believe, of what to be and what not to be.”
― Frank Herbert,
Children of Dune
“The value of marriage is not
that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”
― Peter De Vries
“Children are a burden to a
mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard on
my heart, and thinking about them growing up honest and healthy, or just living
to grow up at all, makes a load in my chest that is bigger than the safe at the
bank,and more valuable to me than all the gold inside it.”
― Nancy E. Turner,
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
“Every child needs a
champion.”
― Hillary Rodham
Clinton
“When mom and dad went to war
the only prisoners they took were the children”
― PAT CONROY(AUTHOR)
“Dads. It’s time to show our
sons how to properly treat a woman. It’s time to show our daughters how a girl
should expect be treated. It’s time to show forgiveness and compassion. It’s
time to show our children empathy. It’s time to break social norms and teach a
healthier way of life! It’s time to teach good gender roles and to ditch the
unnecessary ones. Does it really matter if your son likes the color pink? Is it
going to hurt anybody? Do you not see the damage it inflicts to tell a boy that
there is something wrong with him because he likes a certain color? Do we not
see the damage we do in labeling our girls “tom boys” or our boys “feminine”
just because they have their own likes and opinions on things? Things that
really don’t matter?”
― Dan Pearce, Single
Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“Dope.
They
sell that shit to schoolkids.
It's
worse than that.
How's
that?
Schoolkids
buy it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No
Country for Old Men
“How awful it was, thought
Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living
children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they
did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.”
― J.K. Rowling, The
Casual Vacancy
“In the United States today,
there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as
children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of
adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish
adults. ”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz
“A man's immortality can be
found in his children.”
― Patricia Briggs,
Raven's Shadow
“He preferred smart questions
to smart answers.”
― Yoko Ogawa, The
Housekeeper and the Professor
“I hope our daughters are
born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to
shame.”
― Nikita Gill
“Children can feel, but they
cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in
thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.”
― Charlotte Brontë,
Jane Eyre
“Peanut was a hamster. He was
furry, had four legs, a big tummy and his favourite food was, you guessed it,
peanuts”
― Molly Arbuthnott,
Peanut the Hamster
“How can she expect her
children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze
upon them?”
― Josh Malerman, Bird
Box
“I had the same sensation as
when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps
because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life,
the greatest criminal and most self-absorbed egotist are holy, by a natural
magic, as long as they're sleeping. For me there's no discernible difference
between killing a child and killing a sleeping man.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The
Book of Disquiet
“What we instill in our
children will be the foundation upon which they build their future.”
― Steve Maraboli,
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“To my children, I will say,
‘Fill your skin with kindness and find solace in your solitude. It takes
bravery to be kind. But to be brave you will need to know how to stand for
something even if you are completely alone.”
― Nikita Gill
“All children are atheists,
they have no idea of God.”
― Paul Henri Thiry
d'Holbach, System of Nature
