Children Quote by A.G. Riddle

“Hunger and poverty steal your childhood and take away your innocence and sense of security. But I was one of the lucky ones because…

— Saroo Brierley

“The children you don’t especially need, you have always with you, like the poor. But the bright ones get away from you. They have…

— Willa Cather

“Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.”

— Vahan Zanoyan

“and I discovered my limitations, and mainly I learned that there was a price to pay for that childhood (it turns out there’s no…

— David Grossman

“But folks always underestimate what the promise of a lifetime of starvation, powerlessness, and humiliation can provoke in a young person's character.”

— Junot Díaz

“Ah, how helpless we children are, how dependent on the whims of adults.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“I saw a bunch of kids who needed love and acceptance and to be allowed to live as normal children, instead of having to…

— Dwight E. Abbott

“For my grandchildren . . . and all children—this book is written with hopes of the time to come, when no child shall lie…

— Carlos P. Romulo

“adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.”

— Geraldine Brooks

“Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under…

— Anthony Liccione

“Childhood is a process of slowly recomposing oneself out of the borrowed materials of the world.”

— Nicole Krauss

“The loss of an only child is the worst pain anyone can endure. After all, what do our parents live for? With thee best…

— Durjoy Datta