Children Quote by Lynn I. Wilson

“At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe,…

— Kelly Corrigan

“I went on to spend an inordinate amount of my childhood bashfully attached to my mother's pelvis, mostly out of social anxiety, but also…

— Matt Bellassai

“I honestly didn't believe I could bear any more suffering. I was convinced that the child within me was just too young to endure…

— Suzie Burke

“I love and commit to nourishing my inner child.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“these are the sorts of experiences in life that make us feel most vulnerable: Standing over my children while they are sleeping. Acknowledging how…

— Richard Beck

“Many patients grew up feeling their perceptions of their parents were forbidden and dangerous. They have learned to discount their own often discerning observations…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“if you’ve loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange perspective on…

— James Baldwin

“That is what you do when you have a child, isn’t it, open yourself up to unimaginable pain and then try to pretend away…

— Gin Phillips

“I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help…

— Keith Donohue

“The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children ourweigh our fears”

— Ellen Goodman

“I still didn't know very much about the complex coping mechanism that had helped me survive my childhood. It was as if my conscious…

— Olga Trujillo

“Even as a child, I had a sense that I was two people; the one who experienced the trauma, the pain, the happiness, and…

— P.D. James