One of the children lived.

We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for…

— Maeve Binchy

The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and in the…

— Roger Ebert

“We were afraid of so many things: Of our children, who lived in their own world of casually lurid pleasures, zombies and cartoon killers…

— Jean Thompson

“Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a place just for children but…

— Rachel Gathercole

“I know perfectly well that it is impossible, according to arithmetic and scholarly books, to live in a far valley off a handful of…

— Halldór Laxness

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to…

— Sissy Spacek

I'm the youngest of three children. We lived beside a big beech wood, on the edge of the moors, in Northumberland, which was enormously…

— Alexander Armstrong

I longed for funny stories about the sort of children who lived in my neighborhood.

— Beverly Cleary

I don't remember men in our village after World War II: during the war, one out of four Belarusians perished, either fighting at the…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“When I was in second grade, my teacher, Miss Maxwell, read from The Harmony Herald that one in every four children lived in China.…

— Philip Gulley

As a child, we lived in flats, and I was never allowed pets.

— Tim Pigott-Smith

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

— Brené Brown

I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or…

— Natasha Lyonne

“As parents who make every effort we can to raise our children in loving security, we do not need to feel more guilt than…

— Gabor Maté

“Children's lives are always beginning and adults' lives are always ending. Or is it the opposite? Your childhood is always ending and your adult…

— Alison Espach