Quotes of: Having-children Keyword

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

The Pale Horseman

My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children’s need for parenting.

Paradise Imperfect: An American Family Moves to the Costa Rican Mountains

Children believe what you promise. They are excited and expectant. Your nature must be like theirs: bold, daring, unafraid and eager to experience the victory God has already assured.

Pour the Oil

Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill;

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

She’s happier than Nicola. That’s probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it always too late? Probably. She doesn’t know.

Paula Spencer

Wisdom is precious because of the price we pay for it.

Rocking the Life Unexpected: 12 Weeks to Your Plan B for a Meaningful and Fulfiling Life Without Children

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

The River of Winged Dreams

No more than two to a tricycle, please. When I said family fun, I didn’t mean this is a place to start a family. (Children over 65 eat free.)

This Book is Not FOR SALE

in a male-dominated world, Reich suggested, there was an “economic interest” in the continued role of women as “the provider of children for the state” and the performer of household chores without pay.

Thy Neighbor's Wife

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.

Voice of Reason

If a deadly snake slithering around in a pre-school bit a child, would you box it up for a month as punishment, and then release it to prey upon the children once again?

When Everything Changed

Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent.

Why Time Begins on Opening Day

It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe.

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.

Walden

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Dogs and children vomit in distress. Women cry. ("Dial 'O' For Operator")

Weird Shadows From Beyond: An Anthology Of Strange Stories

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.

The Woman in White

An infant is a seed. Is it an oak seed or a cabbage seed? Who knows. All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

World of Wonders

Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations.

When it Happens to You

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

Maximillian Degenerez

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

Alison Gopnik