Children Quotes

My mother is a realist, and she’s had biological and adoptive children, and she said it’s no different: No matter what, they’re putting a stranger into your arms. You don’t know them yet.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I believe in the power of stories to bring families together, forge friendships, build movements and inspire children to dream.

Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.

I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God’s arms like a little child, and trust.

I would never be a sellout, but you can never be a sellout to kids. Kids is kids!

When my little son, Prince, had health issues as a baby, we were told that he had a 20 percent chance of survival.

How is it that the colors don’t seem colorful anymore? How is it that the child in me wants to live yet keeps dying more and more?