"Having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you want before you commit."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading."
— Anne Fadiman (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader)

"A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them."
— Anne Fadiman (Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader)

"Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly."
— Ambrose Bierce

"In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

"A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot
"
— Martina Mcbride

"I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books."
— Alberto Manguel (A History of Reading)

"Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Snuff)

"A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate, when morning comes it will be too late
"
— Martina Mcbride

"There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger."
— Elizabeth Gaskell (Wives and Daughters)

"Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child."
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

"Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life."
— R.A. Salvatore (Streams of Silver)

"No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child."
— Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

"Reading to small children is a specialty."
— Clifton Fadiman (Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader)

"Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game."
— Louise Bates Ames

"I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter..."
— Clive Barker (Mister B. Gone CD)

"Right now, you and me here, put together entirely from atoms that have been part of millions of other organisms before they became us, sitting on this round rock with a core of liquid iron held down by this force that so troubles you called gravity, all the while spinning around the sun at 67 thousand miles an hour and whizzing through the Milky Way at 600 thousand miles an hour in a universe that very well may be chasing its own tail at the speed of light... and amidst all this frantic activity, fully cognizant of our own imminent demise, which is a very pretty way of saying we all know we're going to die, we reach out, to one another, sometimes for the sake of vanity, sometimes for reasons you're not old enough to understand yet, but a lot of the time we just reach out... and expect nothing in return. Isn't that strange? Isn't that weird? ... Isn't that... weird... enough?"
— David Gerrold (The Martian Child: A Novel About a Single Father Adopting a Son)

"The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all."
— Jim Carrey

"In this business it's hard to find people who are able to dance with their inner child without the help of stimulants. "
— Jim Carrey

"You're just a child who has wrapped himself in lies, desires, and truth."
— Charles Code Geass

"You are a child of mine,
Born of my own design,
And you bear the hard of life.
No matter where you go,
Oh, you will always know,
That you've been made free in Christ,
And you are a child of mine! "
— Mark Schultz

"(Quote from Childhood)

Brother breaks something.

Sister: You're such a dame bread!

Brother: Don't you mean brain dead?!"
— Bexzi Phillips

"Everything gets better when you go to sleep."
— my 3 year old daughter

"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."
— John Irving

"No time is more precious and well rewarded than those few moments you spend reading a story to a child"
— Robert D. Harris

"It is necessary to own and honor the child who we were in order to Love the person we are. And the only way to do that is to own that child's experiences, honor that child's feelings, and release the emotional grief energy that we are still carrying around. "
— Dance of the Wounded Souls

""A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive." "
— Dena Tyson (Xceptance)

"(Quote from Childhood)
Dad: (talking to Mum) So we have to get up early in the morning..

Daughter: What's a purley?"
— Bexzi Phillips

"(Quote from childhood)

(After seeing a row of dafferdils)

Daughter: Look mummy, there's some dafidillies!"
— Bexzi Phillips

"I'll be the one to protect you from your enemies and all your demons
I'll be the one to protect you from a will to survive and a voice of reason
I'll be the one to protect you from your enemies and your choices, son
They're one in the same, I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourself"
— A Perfect Circle

"anak adalah kekayaan kita yang sesungguhnya
berilah padanya makanan
dengan sebaik-baiknya makanan

jangan biarkan mereka mengunyah kemiskinan

hati dan fikiran kita

"
— Cavita Jamie

"Apperance gave no clue to our identity, and neither did our behavior."
— Carol Funk

"I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room"
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. "
— Vladimir Nabokov

"I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm."
— Paulo Coelho (The Pilgrimage)

"Character is who you are when no one is looking and means having an inner standard that cares more about others"
— LEHMAN

""A new enterprise awaits. It hangs before you like fruit on a tree.""
— Julie Powell (Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen)

""Doors are going to open-doors you can't even imagine exist.""
— Julie Powell (Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen)

"Away with us, he's going,
The solemn-eyed;
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hill-side.
Or the kettle on the hob,
Sing peace into his breast;
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest.
For he comes, the human child,
To the woods and waters wild,
With a fairy hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand."
— William Butler Yeats