I got a fortune cookie that said, “To remember is to understand.” I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.
Children Quotes
Whenever I date a guy, I think is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.
Never play peekaboo with a child on a long plane trip. There’s no end to the game. Finally I grabbed him by the bib and said, “Look, it’s always gonna be me!”
Judicious mothers will always keep in mind, that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every child’s library.
I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.
Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.
Give a little to love a child, and you get a great deal back.
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.
Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
