My Children Quotes

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!

You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.

The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.

One does silly things when one is twelve.

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth!

Done because we are too many.

What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don't want to have children.

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.

All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

Children in the abstract, had never appealed to me. They seemed to be loud creatures, often dripping some form of goo.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

A child may be "spoiled" by a lack of training or by inappropriate love that gives or trains incorrectly.

Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.

The best way to encourage your children is to let them know you are praying for them.

There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children

Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

World is brighter with the happiness of children.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.

A church begins to die when it says, ‘They were just children.

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.