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Garrison Keillor Quotes about Children

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Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence

Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.

Garrison Keillor
Children, Heart, School

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.

Garrison Keillor
Children, Hovering, Single Parent
Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.23, Penguin

A child can educate just about anybody.

Garrison Keillor
Children, Educate

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Garrison Keillor
Family, Children, Single Mom
Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.23, Penguin

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Garrison Keillor
Strong Women, Children, Parenting
A Prairie Home Companion (radio series) (1974 - 1987)

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

Garrison Keillor
Children, Dad, Father
Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.128, Penguin

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

Garrison Keillor
Children, Ignorance, Kids
Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.22, Penguin

It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

Garrison Keillor
Children, Parent, Survival

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

Garrison Keillor
Children, Thinking, Age

Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.

Garrison Keillor
Children, Clever, May

I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home.

Garrison Keillor
Children, Fun, Home
"Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin Talk A Prairie Home Companion". movieweb.com. June 09, 2006.

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