Quotes about children

Another friend, a child psychologist from the college, once commented that Rachel at age five showed the most reliable indicators of true giftedness in a young person: structured curiosity, empathy for others, compassion, and a fierce sense of fair play.

“It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.”

When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything.

“The meanest girl who dances and dresses becomes something higher when her children look up into her face and ask her questions. It is the only education we have and which they cannot take from us”

They’re your children. The more you try to force them to be like you, the more they’re going to flare off in different directions like wild fireworks, the more they’re going to surprise and disappoint you.

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.

Children who have felt cruelty know very well how to inflict it.

We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill.

Parents might believe themselves to be the bosses, but in the end it was the kids who made the rules.

"Kids are people, too, and once they start getting older, they make their own decisions. There's only so much you can do."

"...once she becomes a teenager...well, sometimes there's nothing you can do. With or without you, in the end, children grow up to become the people they were meant to be."

"...having children changes your life like nothing else. It'll be the hardest and best thing you've ever done."