Do you know what my favorite thing about children is? Never afraid to say “I don’t know.” Everything, every day, is an adventure and a mystery. They devour the world.[to Lee]
Do you know what a prodigy is?[Boy Kavalier]Sure. A child genius.[Curly]Yeah. But what most people don’t understand is what makes them geniuses is the fact that they’re children. Because children have access to a world of infinite imagination.[Boy Kavalier]
Children. Generation to generation, the Earth’s troubles are passed on to them. Babies on my planet are self-sufficient and can survive on instinct alone. Human children learn everything from the humans around them. Without nurturing parents to guide them, those children become lost. Without a community to help, humans end up alone, with nobody to turn to when they’re in trouble. But there is still hope. There are some who can find their strength.
Children, a pestilence. They are not so much born, but replicate like a virus, continuing humanity’s path toward destruction. Plus, it is illegal to make them work, so they are just gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe.
Children should walk before they run.
Children matter. They hold our hopes, our dreams. They blot out your mistakes.
Children have an easier time imagining a ghost in a darkened hallway than they do imagining their mother as a youth.
Children are the cherished hope of every marriage, but for a royal in need of an heir, children are more than a hope. They are a necessity.
Children accept the world as it is presented to them.
Better a disappointed kid now than a dead one later.
Being grown’s got a price. Kid gets slapped when he’s bad. When you’re grown, you get the fist. Or the knife.
A house without children never loses the echoes.
