children Quotes

“In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“I ain't such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

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“Real children don’t go hoppity-skip unless they are on drugs.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“All grown-ups were once children—although few of them remember it.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to 'dear, kind God'!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children—lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“I have seen Negro children who really cannot learn, particularly those who in their gelatin plate of babyness have been told they were inferior.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

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“Now, all the general propositions favouring freedom I had either imbibed at my father’s knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek were suddenly embodied in the worshippers and their children and illuminated by their smiles.”

― Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power

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