Children Quotes

I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

Whoso hath left debt and children, let him come to me; I am their patron, I will discharge his debt and befriend his children.

I was in the back yard, and my then-4-year-old brown-haired brown-eyed daughter came running down the hill and into my arms. I decided in that moment that one trillion brown-eyed little girls running down one trillion grassy hills throughout the galaxy would be an enhancement of the state of the universe, not a diminishment of […]

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Children aren’t happy without something to ignore, And that’s what parents were created for.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.