children Quotes

“when grown-ups told you something wouldn’t hurt it almost always did.”

― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

topic:children lie hurting

“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”

― Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book

topic:religion children

“Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.”

― Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

topic:children personality

“He sat down on the bed, breathing and staring; thinking first the old selfish child's thought that comes with the death of a parent, how will it affect me now that this earliest and strongest of protections is gone?”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic...”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

topic:children trust

“They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut...”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

topic:children dreams

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

topic:work children

“When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens for you.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:self children

“All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

topic:children care

“There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:world children

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