Children Quote by Octavia E. Butler

“It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Instead of promoting healthy development, they unconsciously undermine it, often with the belief that they are acting in their child’s best interest.”

— Susan Forward

“When it’s not enough to veto your children’s tendencies, you must in vitro them.”

— Bauvard

“As if I would EVER give birth. I suppose a well-mannered little six-year-old would be all right, but they simply don’t COME that way.…

— Meg Cabot

“Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, lest they be perpetuated or even grow…

— Alain de Botton

“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

“The weakness then of infant limbs, not its will, is its innocence.”

— Augustine of Hippo

“Should I be concerned over the obvious delight our daughter takes in the ultraviolence?" "It's genetic.”

— Young Justice

“Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child.”

— Cisero

“You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.”

— Graham Greene

“Probing the womb of the future is bad for the child.”

— Walter M. Miller Jr