Children Quotes by Stephen King

“The seeds sown in childhood put down deep roots.”

— Stephen King

“As soon as you have a child, you see your own tombstone”

— Stephen King

“All God’s children have shoes.”

— Stephen King

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

— Stephen King

“God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned...”

— Stephen King

“You could not moralize children out of growing up. Or teach them how to do it.”

— Stephen King

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

— Stephen King

“A child blind from birth doesn’t even know he’s blind until someone tells him.”

— Stephen King

“In the end, daughter of pandora that I am, my curiosity got the best of me. I wish it hadn't.”

— Stephen King

“Baby Jesus, meek and mild, pray for me, an orphan child. Be my strength, be my friend, be with me until the…

— Stephen King

“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”

— Stephen King

“It was strange how some of childhood's words and ways fell at the wayside and were left behind, while others clamped tight…

— Stephen King

“He dialed the hotel he had last seen through the horn-rimmed spectacles of his childhood. Dialing that number, 1-207-941-8282, was fatally easy.…

— Stephen King

She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the…

— Stephen King

“For me, the imagination which so often kept me awake and in terror as a child has seen me through some terrible…

— Stephen King

“The perception of a child who has not yet learned to protect itself by developing the tunnel vision that keeps out ninety…

— Stephen King

When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is…

— Stephen King

Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure…

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“Perhaps kids really did come into the world trailing clouds of glory, as Wordsworth had so confidently proclaimed, but they also shit…

— Stephen King

A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic…

— Stephen King

I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little…

— Stephen King

We live in a society now where the sexual taboo for children has really passed by the wayside. Any nineyear-old can go…

— Stephen King

Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there…

— Stephen King

“Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything…

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“The newest animal Route 5 had used up, it seemed, was my daughter’s beloved pet. We buried Smucky in the pet sematary.…

— Stephen King

For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man…

— Stephen King

“...one of those gated communities where there's one token African-American couple and four token Jewish couples. Children and vegetarians are not allowed.…

— Stephen King

“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who…

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“guess the question is, how paranoid do you want to be? How many guns does it take to make you feel safe?…

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“Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sleeping…

— Stephen King

“Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality…

— Stephen King

“I’m an old man trying to give a young daughter advice, and it’s like a monkey trying to teach table manners to…

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“So drive away quick, drive away while the last of the light slips away, drive away from Derry, from memory...but not from…

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“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control; About who is snapping the…

— Stephen King

“You know, schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that…

— Stephen King

No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.

— Stephen King

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

— Stephen King

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

— Stephen King

“But God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned;”

— Stephen King

the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...

— Stephen King