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Children Quotes (page 44)

The children on the playground all heard her. They took off running together, as far away as possible from Antonia Owens, who might hex you if you did her wrong, and from her aunts, who might boil up garden toads and slip them into your stew, and from her mother, who was so angry and protective she might just freeze you in time, ensuring that you were forever trapped on the green grass at the age of ten or eleven. Alice Hoffman
Tell all the truth but tell it slant, Success in circuit lies, Too bright for our infirm delight. The truth's superb surprise; As lightning to the children eased. With explanation kind, The truth must dazzle gradually. Or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "There is no evidence against genetic determinism more..."
There is no evidence against genetic determinism more persuasive than the children of the rich. Jeffrey Eugenides
Lyman Abbott quote: "Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how..."
Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. Lyman Abbott
...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
HELMER; But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself. Henrik Ibsen
I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race. Victor Hugo
Thomas Hardy quote: "Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?"
Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em? Thomas Hardy
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children. Henrik Ibsen
These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition. Anne Lamott
They were like two poor little leaves in a storm which bore death and annihilation not only to the heads of individuals, but to whole towns and entire tribes. What hand could snatch it and save two small, defenseless children? Henryk Sienkiewicz
How much more beautiful would be the world and the society in which we live if...every mother regarded her children as the jewels of her life, as gifts from the God of heaven, who is their Eternal Father, and brought them up in true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord. Gordon B. Hinckley
Thomas M. Disch quote: "All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that..."
All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world. Thomas M. Disch
The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks. John Updike
There is no knowing how or why dread comes on a parent. Of course, many times apprehension arises when there is no reason for it at all. And it comes most often to the parents of only children, parents who have indulged in black dreams of loss. John Steinbeck

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