Children Quote by John Burnham Schwartz

“In families, he realized, children are added to, not superseded. The addition of a child is not a betrayal of previous or current children.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

“The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence.”

— Teresa R. Funke

“For some parents, having children meant full absolution from any future mistakes. My father wouldn't permit himself to be wrong. He shifted the blame…

— Amber Dermont

“He spoke as if procreation of children were an extraordinary fate to overtake anyone, consequence of imprudence, if not worse.”

— Anthony Powell

“Begetting a child is at least as serious an act as murder...”

— James Agee

“... a child's ability for reprisal is infinite, and can last a lifetime.”

— Abraham Verghese

“But a woman was liable to put her child before everything else, in the end [...]”

— Ken Follett

“A father must take credit for his child, but never a child for his father.”

— Miguel Syjuco

“My dear child...fault is an empty word. It is a coin with only one side. It is not a reason or an excuse.”

— Zilpha Keatley Snyder

“The child is not traumatized by a sexual event, per se; the child is traumatized by parental character pathology. Because”

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child…

— Alex Flinn

“A child's innocence is the one gift, that once stolen, can never be replaced.”

— Jaeda DeWalt