Quotes on Children

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

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

When my mother did fittings for her clients, I was hiding, looking at these beautiful ladies try on these fantastic clothes. I was dreaming as a small child to try these clothes on myself.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.

Don't set your wit against a child.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.