Children Quote by Lauren Groff

“Parents: Perfecting ways to humiliate their children since the dawn of time.”

— Shannon Messenger

“Awful things, children. Needy, self-centered tyrants, the boys all teeth and firsts, the girls all claws and spit. Gathering into sniveling packs and sniffing…

— Steven Erikson

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”

— Emilie Buchwald

“He was part of a ruined generation of young men coddled by their parents -by their mothers especially- raised on unearned self-esteem, in a…

— Jess Walter

“ALL FAMILIES INVENT THEIR PARENTS AND CHILDREN, GIVE each of them a story, character, fate, and even a language.”

— Edward Said

“Good mothers know the names of their kids’ friends. ‘Hey Green shirt, your ball has rolled into the hedge' will not do.”

— Rachna Singh

“Many children, early on, acquire a love of places they have never been. Often, such wonder is summarily crushed on the crawl through the…

— Steven Erikson

“underscores the fact that parents’ fears are well founded. The numbers don’t lie, and there are too many of them to ignore or dismiss…

— Richard Bromfield

“You swear you’ll never become your parents. You listen to edgy music, you dress young and hip, you have sex standing up and on…

— Jonathan Tropper

“Like the tide eroding the surface of a rock, the raising of children slowly eats away at all the fanciful ideals and standards that…

— Jon Ziegler

“We can’t get away with anything with children. They are keen and attentive, and they will eventually grow up to tell the story of…

— Sarah Mae

“At a certain age our parents offhandedly start telling us things we’ve never heard before, about themselves and their families, their upbringing and history.…

— Tim Kreider