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Best Children Quotes by Jodi Picoult
- Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who…
- A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her.
- Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were…
- There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have…
- I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new…
- When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it…
- Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.
- I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or…
- The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog…
- I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people…
- I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to…
- in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed.…
- As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity and a superhero…
- Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing…
- When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because…
- The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you…
- And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they…
- I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters…
- I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of…
- Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
- There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You…
- When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe…
- It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon