Children
Quotes - You don't have to like all children
“It's
come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand
between your children and heartache.”
―
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Don't
stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch
you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people
can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign
universe.”
―
Peggy O'Mara
“You
have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a
few beautiful children. But you are not to interfere in their growth, in their
potential. You are not to impose yourself upon them. They are not going to live
in the same times, they are not going to face the same problems. They will be
part of another world. Don´t prepare them for this world, this society, this
time, because then you will be creating troubles for them. They will find
themselves unfit, unqualified.”
―
Osho
“Censorship
and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and
almost always about control; About who is snapping the whip, who is saying no,
and who is saying go. Censorship's bottom line is this: if the novel Christine
offends me, I don't want just to make sure it's kept from my kid; I want to
make sure it's kept from your kid, as well, and all the kids. This bit of
intellectual arrogance, undemocratic and as old as time, is best expressed this
way: "If it's bad for me and my family, it's bad for everyone's
family."
Yet
when books are run out of school classrooms and even out of school libraries as
a result of this idea, I'm never much disturbed not as a citizen, not as a
writer, not even as a schoolteacher . . . which I used to be. What I tell kids
is, Don't get mad, get even. Don't spend time waving signs or carrying
petitions around the neighborhood. Instead, run, don't walk, to the nearest
nonschool library or to the local bookstore and get whatever it was that they
banned. Read whatever they're trying to keep out of your eyes and your brain,
because that's exactly what you need to know.”
―
Stephen King
“Youth
was the time for happiness, its only season; young people, leading a lazy,
carefree life, partially occupied by scarcely absorbing studies, were able to
devote themselves unlimitedly to the liberated exultation of their bodies. They
could play, dance, love, and multiply their pleasures. They could leave a
party, in the early hours of the morning, in the company of sexual partners
they had chosen, and contemplate the dreary line of employees going to work.
They were the salt of the earth, and everything was given to them, everything
was permitted for them, everything was possible. Later on, having started a
family, having entered the adult world, they would be introduced to worry,
work, responsibility, and the difficulties of existence; they would have to pay
taxes, submit themselves to administrative formalities while ceaselessly
bearing witness--powerless and shame-filled--to the irreversible degradation of
their own bodies, which would be slow at first, then increasingly rapid; above
all, they would have to look after children, mortal enemies, in their own
homes, they would have to pamper them, feed them, worry about their illnesses,
provide the means for their education and their pleasure, and unlike in the
world of animals, this would last not just for a season, they would remain
slaves of their offspring always, the time of joy was well and truly over for
them, they would have to continue to suffer until the end, in pain and with
increasing health problems, until they were no longer good for anything and
were definitively thrown into the rubbish heap, cumbersome and useless. In
return, their children would not be at all grateful, on the contrary their
efforts, however strenuous, would never be considered enough, they would, until
the bitter end, be considered guilty because of the simple fact of being
parents. From this sad life, marked by shame, all joy would be pitilessly
banished. When they wanted to draw near to young people's bodies, they would be
chased away, rejected, ridiculed, insulted, and, more and more often nowadays,
imprisoned. The physical bodies of young people, the only desirable possession
the world has ever produced, were reserved for the exclusive use of the young,
and the fate of the old was to work and to suffer. This was the true meaning of
solidarity between generations; it was a pure and simple holocaust of each
generation in favor of the one that replaced it, a cruel, prolonged holocaust
that brought with it no consolation, no comfort, nor any material or emotional
compensation.”
―
Michel Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
“You
don't have to like all children. Just one. And children don't need the world's
best parents, just their own parents. To be perfectly honest with you, what
they need most of the time is a chauffeur.”
―
Fredrik Backman, Anxious People
“By loving them for more than
their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of
their accomplishments.”
― Eileen
Kennedy-Moore, Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True
Potential
“He stepped to her again,
laid his lips on her brow. "But I want children with you, my lovely Eve.
One day."
"One
day being far, far in the future. Like, I don't know, say a decade when...Hold
on. Children is plural."
He
eased back, grinned. "Why, so it is--nothing slips by my canny cop."
"You
really think if I ever actually let you plant something in me--they're like
aliens in there, growing little hands and feet." She shuddered.
"Creepy. If I ever did that, popped a kid out--which I think is probably
as pleasant a process as having your eyeballs pierced by burning, poisonous
sticks, I'd say, 'Whoopee, let's do this again?' Have you recently suffered
head trauma?"
"Not
to my knowledge."
"Could
be coming. Any second.”
― J.D. Robb, Survivor
In Death
