Children Quotes by Anne Lamott

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

— Anne Lamott

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

— Anne Lamott

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.

— Anne Lamott

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

— Anne Lamott

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

— Anne Lamott

“Children should not have treacherous diseases or be afraid. This should be one rule we all agree on.”

— Anne Lamott

“My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've…

— Anne Lamott

Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit…

— Anne Lamott

These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw,…

— Anne Lamott

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows…

— Anne Lamott

“So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such…

— Anne Lamott

I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us,…

— Anne Lamott

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy…

— Anne Lamott

Writing is how I communicate my deepest beliefs, and what I hope are helpful observations about our dual citizenship, as children of…

— Anne Lamott

You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt,…

— Anne Lamott

Having a child as a single mother was a crucible - maybe this is true for all parents. I got rid of…

— Anne Lamott

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A…

— Anne Lamott

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a…

— Anne Lamott

Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow,…

— Anne Lamott

You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though theologians insist that…

— Anne Lamott

“Throughout my childhood I believed that what I thought about was different from what other kids thought about. It was not necessarily…

— Anne Lamott

“Every Sunday I nudge Sam in her direction, and he walks to where she is sitting and hugs her. She smells him…

— Anne Lamott

We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If…

— Anne Lamott

“When I was a child, I thought grown-ups and teachers knew the truth, because they told me they did. It took years…

— Anne Lamott

I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and…

— Anne Lamott

“Even as we improved as teachers and as students, the children continued to have raging impulse-control problems; the very thing that made…

— Anne Lamott

Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that…

— Anne Lamott

You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in…

— Anne Lamott

“You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups…

— Anne Lamott

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without…

— Anne Lamott

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline… But also every single…

— Anne Lamott

The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the…

— Anne Lamott

What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out…

— Anne Lamott

“The speaker at the meeting, a blonde woman in a fine tailored suit, shared how alcoholism had stolen her own childhood, and…

— Anne Lamott

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love…

— Anne Lamott

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such…

— Anne Lamott

“Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her own tribe, finding her identity there, and it was…

— Anne Lamott

Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most…

— Anne Lamott

You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out…

— Anne Lamott

“It's so awful, attacking your child. It's the worse thing I know, to shout loudly at this 50 lb. being with his…

— Anne Lamott