Children

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger, composer and teacher

We had two kids by the time we'd been married for three years. They were neither planned nor unplanned; they came when they came, and we were glad to have them.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other is wings.
Hodding Carter, U.S. politician and journalist

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.
Frank A. Clark

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Peter DeVries

Children are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
William Feather

By trying to make things easier for their children parents can make things much harder for them.
Mary Grothe (1942-), psychologist and author

The decision to have a child is to know that your heart will forever walk around on the outside of your body.
Katharine Hadley

Parents are the first teachers of the children.
Burmese proverb

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
Garrison Keillor

Live your life in the manner that you would like your kids to live theirs.
Michael Levine

A child is mysterious and powerful and contains within the secret of human nature.
Maria Montessori

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa

Nothing in life is preparation for the loss of a child.
Bessette family statement following deaths of Lauren Bessette, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and JFK Jr.

There is only one pretty child and every mother has it.
Dove Promises wrapper

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John J. Plomp

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments: tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
Louis Pasteur (1822-95)

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
Jill Ruckelshaus, social activist

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Thomas Szasz

Every little girl is a princess, but sometimes that little girl needs to be reminded.

If it was going to be easy to raise kids, it never would have started with something called labor.

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P.D. James (1920-), writer