The best Quotes and Sayings about Children & Childhood (Page 2)

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

We stopped checking for monsters under our bed, when we realized they were inside us.

Having a baby is like having a tattoo on your face. You kind of want to be committed.

To my dear beautiful daughter,

I'm writing you a letter. That's right, a good old-fashioned letter. It's a lost art, really. I have a confession to make. I didn't like you very much at first. You were just this annoying, little blob. You smelled nice. Most of the time. But you didn't seem to have much interest in me. Which I, of course, found vaguely insulting.

It was just you and your mom against the world... funny how some things never change. So I cruised along, doing my thing, acting the fool, not really understanding how being a parent changes you. And I don't remember the exact moment everything changed. I just know that it did.

One minute I was impenetrable. Nothing could touch me. The next, my heart was somehow beating outside my chest, exposed to the elements. Loving you has been the most profound, intense, painful experience of my life. In fact, it's been almost too much to bear. As your father, I made a silent vow to protect you from the world, never realizing I was the one who would end up hurting you the most.

When I flash forward, my heart breaks. Mostly because I can't imagine you speaking of me with any sort of pride. How could you? Your father is a child in a man's body. He cares for nothing and everything at the same time. Noble in thought, weak in action. Something has to change. Something has to give. It's getting dark... too dark to see.

I could use a dream or a genie or a wish
To go back to a place much simpler than this

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

This life is so complicated, until we see it through the eyes of a child.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

The most efficient form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids.

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil, and that is what our pictures attempt to do.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

In the little world in which children have their existence, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Sometimes I wish I were a kid again; skinned knees are a lot easier to fix than a broken heart.

What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child - it's the courage to raise one.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.