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.
Halloween is so close I can practically taste the children's tears.
Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.
They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.
When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth.
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
Children need a safe space free from crude gender images, and that space should be school.
I always knew children were anti-social. But the children of the West Side - they're savage.
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.