Children - Quotes
When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
I chose to love my friends. I chose to love my wife. I think I even chose to love my parents as I got older. But I had no say in loving my children. The love for my children is beyond my control. It`s animal. It`s like hunger. It`s more than hunger - there have been times I could control my hunger [...]. I love my children like I need to breathe.
Many children can do extraordinary things; we are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
If motherhood has taught me anything, it is that I cannot change my children, I can only change myself. Try as I might, I can’t shape either one of them to my desires or designs, but I can choose, moment by moment and day by day, my own reaction to who they are. So perhaps my real job now, and in the year ahead, isn’t to direct my sons’ lives, but to work on becoming more thoughtful and deliberate about my own.
Children aren`t happy with nothing to ignore,
And that`s what parents were created for.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan`s power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God`s child, and that we are God`s children also. There are no children of Satan, really.
Children are knives [...]. They don`t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don`t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.