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Children Quotes (page 81)

Madeleine L'Engle quote: "If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write..."
If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. Madeleine L'Engle
We do what we must to earn our place in the community, but we live for the hours at home. For each other, for the children. It will never get me written up in the history books. Orson Scott Card
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. Wilkie Collins
As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off. Ursula K. Le Guin
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. John Quincy Adams
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and... George Santayana
Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts. Martin Luther King jr.
Ian Mcewan quote: "It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted..."
It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone. Ian Mcewan
Plato quote: "Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches but the..."
Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence. Plato
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay... W. Somerset Maugham
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no..."
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Rainer Maria Rilke
Jane Austen quote: "Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree..."
Poor woman! She probably thought change of air might agree with many of her children. Jane Austen
She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had to endure; of the invisible giants hurting her boy in some unimaginable fashion; of the incalculable amount of tenderness contained in the world; of the fate of this tenderness, which is either crushed or wasted, or transformed into madness; of neglected children humming to themselves in unswept corners; of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer. Vladimir Nabokov
Rumi quote: "The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy."
The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy. Rumi
and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know— Lewis Carroll

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