Children Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“No one is ever satisfied where he is…Only the children know what they’re looking for…”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.

— Antoine De Saint-Exupery

“Children should be very understanding of grown-ups”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Children should show great understanding towards grown-ups”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Children,” I say plainly, “watch out for the baobabs!”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Only the children know what they are looking for.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Grown - ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaning things to…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“And the little prince said to the man, 'Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The little prince went away, to look again at the roses. "You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince.…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“As for the military advantage of such a bombardment, I simply cannot grasp it. I have seen housewives disemboweled, children mutilated; I…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“And now of a sudden my illusion vanished. What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery