CHILDREN QUOTES III

quotations about children

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Only to children children sing,
Only to youth will spring be spring.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history.

RAY MERRITT

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The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

FRED G. GOSMAN

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A child is a guest in the house, to be loved and respected -- never possessed, since he belongs to God.

J. D. SALINGER

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Children are taught to fear and obey; the avarice, pride, or timidity of parents teaches children economy, arrogance, or submission. They are also encouraged to be imitators, a course to which they are already too much inclined. No one thinks of making them original, courageous, independent.

LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES

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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

FRAN LEBOWITZ

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What is the son but an extension of the father?

FRANK HERBERT

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Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.

GARRISON KEILLOR

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The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children.

ROBERTO BOLAÑO

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Seems parents and children spend half their lives not seeing eye to eye. By the time they do find some common ground, there's barely any time left to enjoy it.

LOREN BRAY

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Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

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Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!

WM. PAUL YOUNG

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That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

WALT DISNEY

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Children are God's Apostles, day by day
Sent forth to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

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All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

ERMA BOMBECK

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In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

BILL COSBY

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I didn't want children because I didn't want them to suffer. I had a dog, which suffered enough. I don't even want a goldfish or a turtle. I have a desert plant in my house that needs a glass of water maybe once a year, which I can deliver.

MARINA ABRAMOVIC

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Alligators have the right idea ... they eat their young.

IDA CORWIN

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Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember.

MARGARET DRABBLE

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My friends with children say it's the quality of love that is so unique, the fact that you surrender yourself to love, and through that surrendering become transparent to your deepest feelings. Perhaps it's not having a child that is so striking, but that unconditional love, joy, happiness exist and finally, through the child, have a chance to be expressed. To finally, irrevocably love without holding anything back. Perhaps the magic--the love, happiness, fulfillment--existed in us all along like an underground river, but we could never see it or know it because we kept looking for it outside, in accomplishments, body sizes, and other people.

GENEEN ROTH

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