John Irving Quotes about Children

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Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

John Irving

Children, Parent, Moments

Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish everything on your plate. One reward of leaving school is that you don’t have to finish books you don’t like.

John Irving

Children, Book, Home

Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!

John Irving

Thinking Of You, Children, Crazy

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

John Irving

Children, Real, World

John Irving (2012). “A Widow For One Year”, p.190, Random House

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

Children, Couple, Divorce

She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and being the expectations - as if, for a brief phrase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations.

John Irving

Children, Expectations, Attention

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.

John Irving

Children, Couple, Divorce

"A Widow for One Year". Book by John Irving, May 5, 1998.