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Children Quotes

A short page with no flagged entries, which is rare. Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, Suman Pokhrel, Alice Meynell and Isaiah lead. Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads (1798) asks what a simple child that lightly draws its breath and feels its life in every limb should know of death. Goldsmith’s The Traveller (1764) says the sports of children satisfy the child. Byron, in Beppo (1818), complains about them with the line that they always smell of bread and butter.

The sourced entries here are all poems, and every quote page shows the poem’s source and date.

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I hope I could inspire some kids and other people along the way and show them that you can also reach your goals when you work hard for your dreams! Also in one of the smallest countries in the world (Liechtenstein)!

Julia Hassler Julia Hassler (2021)

I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.

Frances Bean Cobain Frances Bean Cobain: 'I'm a Different Person (2005)

Children do have big eyes. When I'm doing a portrait, the eyes are the most expressive part of the face. And they just got bigger and bigger and bigger.

Margaret Keane

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say, “I lost it.”

Sydney J. Harris On the Contrary (1964)

After graduation I was offered a post as Vice-Principal at the Jat High School but in that there was the name of a caste and I could not accept that. I have always been opposed to this social system since my childhood.

Charan Singh

Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne.

Steven Erikson Memories of Ice (2001)

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes,
I was your son, high on your horse,
My mind a top whipped by the lashes
Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Stephen Spender

For a person in rugged health who is not particularly dressed up and does not want to write a letter or read the newspaper, we can imagine few diversions more enjoyable than to have a child turned loose upon him.

Heywood Broun

There is a difference between tragedy and blind brutal calamity. Tragedy has meaning, and there is dignity in it. Tragedy stands with its shoulders stiff and proud. But there is no meaning, no dignity, no fulfillment, in the death of a child.

Walter M. Miller Jr. The Will (1953)

"Children are the most sweet burden of life." ~ Svi me vole, samo tata ne (1971)

Đuro Zrakić

They’re your children. The more you try to force them to be like you, the more they’re going to flare off in different directions like wild fireworks, the more they’re going to surprise and disappoint you.

Alastair Reynolds House of Suns (2008)

That the individual organism is highly self-oriented should be obvious to any parent undertaking the socialization of a child. (1994)

Stephen Sanderson

‘The greatest privilege of childhood’, she said, ‘is to live safely in the present.’

Simon Sebag Montefiore One Night in Winter (2013)

The children all signed... the doors. ...[T]hey ...helped building the school.

Anna Heringer The warmth and wisdom of mud buildings (2017)

[R]arely is the question asked: Are... is our children learning?

George W. Bush

You worship the Christ child. The Christ child was born of a mother who had no marriage certificate. What you worship in the Christ child, you poor little marriage-ridden man, is your own yearning for sexual freedom!

Wilhelm Reich Listen, Little Man! (1948)

With a 97 per cent vaccination rate (against COVID-19 as of July 2021), it is a tremendous result, and it shows that the majority have chosen to be vaccinated for the safety and wellbeing of the country, and for our children.

Dalton Tagelagi Dalton Tagelagi (2021)

I have no son named Yakov.

Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin: Dictator of the Soviet Union (2006)

I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that.

Jack Valenti

Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children … It’s a triangular relationship between child labor, poverty and illiteracy, and I have been trying to fight all of these things together.

Kailash Satyarthi

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