Quotes about children
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… all children are afraid from time to time, especially in situations that are new to them.
No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
Two, she thought, was the most ephemeral age, the age of incipient consciousness, when personality was first chinking into place.
Children retain a great deal, and when they grow up they start going over things and rejudging them from a grownup’s point of view. This must have been this way, and that was that way, they say. That’s why you have to be careful with children — some day they grow up.
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child: children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.
p. 49
Nothing reminds one of impending extinction more than the growth of one’s children, for whom room must be made, and who are in fact one’s only hint of even a tincture of a hope of immortality.
p. 5
Lord save little children! They abide. The wind blows and the rain is cold. Yet, they abide.
p. 250
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!
p. 372
She warned me that raising children would require patience. It’s why I never had any of my own.
p. 12
I smiled and watched Charlie running away with the children , with his head down and his happy arms spinning like propellers, and I cried with joy when the children all began to play together in the sparkling foam of the waves that broke between worlds at the point. It was beautiful […] and that is a word I do not need to explain to you, because now we are all speaking the same language
Sometimes I think we have children because we want to leave behind someone who can explain who we were to the world when we are gone.
Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why. (chapter 3, p94)
