Children Quote by Eric Hoffer

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

— Euripides

Anyone who refuses the love of a child deserves nothing but evil as terrible as the heart you have blackened.

— Anonymous

“The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an old man…

— Victor Hugo

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

— Martial

“Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers for his country. No wonder that…

— Fulton J. Sheen

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter…

— Sophocles

“It’s just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the grown man—the…

— Jojo Moyes

“The child-man, then, is the lost son of a host of economic and cultural changes: the demographic shift I call preadulthood, the Playboy philosophy,…

— Kay Hymowitz

A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For…

— Alan Paton

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

— Voltaire