Children Quote by Anne Ursu

“You were never so acutely aware of your own flaws as you were in the presence of your child. Why was that?”

— Lisa Unger

“Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive our slightest defects. It general those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but…

— François Fénelon

“Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, lest they be perpetuated or even grow…

— Alain de Botton

[On parents:] They're not gods to be pleased or devils to be exorcised. They're just there, and we can only hope they understand when…

— Helen Van Slyke

“What makes us human are our flaws.”

— Julian Rosado-Machain

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“We don’t choose our flaws, unfortunately.”

— sophie kinsella

“God can't force his children to become like him. It's something they have to want, a blessing they have to fight for and be…

— Chris Stewart

“Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.”

— Nancy Rose

“Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?”

— Thomas Hardy

“Let them see my flaws-remind them that I'm not perfect, I’m human just like them”

— Charmaine J. Forde

“A child will always be what he is, she thought, and not what you want him to be.”

— Ken Follett