15,393 Quotes About Children

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

True grown-ups are thoroughly childlike.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

It was then that Hook bit him.Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.

Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant.