CHILDREN QUOTES VII

quotations about children

She not only loves her children, she respects them. They have wills, tastes, thoughts, judgments of their own, and this is as she wishes it to be. She distinguishes clearly between counsel and command: command must be obeyed; counsel may be disregarded without rebuke and without loss of favor.

LYMAN ABBOTT

The Home Builder


Every child lives up to the expectation you have for him.

KEVIN LEMAN

Have a New Kid by Friday


I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.

WALT DISNEY

Deeds Rather Than Words


A child is a deep mystery. It has a life of its own, which it reveals to no one unless it meets with sympathy. Snub its first halting confidences concerning the inner life, or laugh at them, or be cross or indifferent, and you close the door against yourself forever.

AMELIA E. BARR

All the Days of My Life


It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

CHARLES DICKENS

Master Humphrey's Clock


A child is a priest of the ordinary, fulfilling a sacred office that absolutely no one else can fill. The simplest gesture, the ephemeral movement, the commonest object all become precious beyond words when touched, noticed, lived by one's own dear child.

MIKE MASON

The Mystery of Children


The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.

MAXIM GORKY

"Creatures that Once were Men"


There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

attributed, Pearls of Wisdom


Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The Stone Gods


A person with no children says, "Well I just love children." And you say "Why?" And they say, "Because a child is so truthful. That's what I love about 'em...they tell the truth." That's a lie! I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.

BILL COSBY

Bill Cosby: Himself


A child is an uncut diamond.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


We can't control everything thing our kids do. Sooner or later they're just gonna do what they're gonna do. They're like people that way.

ROSEANNE BARR

"Bird is the Word", Roseanne


Children keep a family together, especially when one can't get a babysitter.

FREDERICK SHEPPERD

Electricity on the Farm


Children, no matter how gifted, can't see far into the future, you know. To them, a year is almost a lifetime, and telling them that things will be fine when they grow up does no good at all.

JOHN SAUL

Shadows


Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays


Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects; they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others; already they are men.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of Mankind"


Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

HONORE DE BALZAC

Letters of Two Brides


Children are a comfort to men because the youngsters cannot contradict them.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


When the voices of children are heard on the green
And laughing is heard on the hill,
My heart is at rest within my breast
And everything else is still.

WILLIAM BLAKE

"Nurse's Song", Songs of Innocence


It is important to communicate to children about what we are going through. We often speak in half truths. We don't frame the truth or explain our experience in terms they can understand. We need to take time to do this. What has to happen is that more people have to get involved with more children. Focus energy on the child. Children are raising themselves these days in all sorts of strange ways.

JAMES REDFIELD

interview, Edge Magazine, Jun. 1, 1994