Children
Quotes - When we see an obstacle impossible to cross; God makes a path for us
if we let Him be boss
“There is nothing that moves
a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada
“I really loathe [the bumper
sticker] 'Proud Parent of a Terrific Kid!'
Why
not a bumper sticker for the unlucky parents, something like: 'My
Fifteen-Year-Old's in Detox and Not Speaking to Any of Us' or 'My Kid Robbed a
7-Eleven and is in a Center for Youthful Offenders.”
― Celia Rivenbark,
Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments
“I mean, when the world comes
for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.”
― Joe Hill, Horns
“There is no experience like
having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it
with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of
having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to
love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.”
― Mitch Albom,
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“I want my children to
understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the
human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be
positioned to make it a better place”
― Howard Gardner
“Now you know how badly
someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of
themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.”
― Mitch Albom, For One
More Day
“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
“Teaching kids how to feed
themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an
education.”
― Alice Waters
“Everywhere I'm looking at
kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call
the kids gorgeous and so cute, they make the kids do the thing all over again
so they can take a photo, but they don't want to actually play with them,
they'd rather drink coffee talking to other adults. Sometimes there's a small
kid crying and the Ma of it doesn't even hear.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room
“You want to know how I think
art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art,
and you can't do it.”
― Steve Martin, An
Object of Beauty
“I've been the oldest child
since before you were born”
― E.L. Konigsburg,
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“So many people think that
they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can
recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing,
dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go
undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with
obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors,
organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so
forth. However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents—being an
excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to
have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit
from.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“There," she said. She
rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to
change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could
keep from loving a boy so brave and true?”
― Kate DiCamillo, The
Magician's Elephant
“Good Bones"
Life
is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life
is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a
thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a
thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll
keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty
percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate,
though I keep this from my children.
For
every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For
every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk
in a lake. Life is short and the world
is
at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger,
there is one who would break you,
though
I keep this from my children. I am trying
to
sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking
you through a real shithole, chirps on
about
good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right?
You could make this place beautiful.”
― Maggie Smith
“When we see an obstacle
impossible to cross; God makes a path for us if we let Him be boss.”
― Carolyn Cutler
Hughes
“Innocence ain't all it's
cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies,
because they don't know any better. That's innocence.”
― Joe Hill, NOS4A2
“You can't stop a soldier
from being frightened but you can give him motivation to help him overcome that
fear. I have no such motivation. I can't have. I'm a witcher: an artificially
created mutant. I kill monsters for money. I defend children when their parents
pay me to. If Nilfgaardian parents pay me, I'll defend Nilfgaardian children.
And even if the world lies in ruin - which does not seem likely to me - I'll
carry on killing monsters in the ruins of this world until some monster kills
me. That is my fate, my reason, my life and my attitude to the world. And it is
not what I chose. It was chosen for me.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski,
Krew elfów
