Children Quotes by E. B. White

10 Children quotes by E. B. White

White’s prose, celebrated for its elegance, gently turns to the subject of kids in this modest collection. The ten quotes capture his timeless appreciation for youthful curiosity and the simple joys of growing up.

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Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

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Mother: It's broccoli, dear. --- Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.

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“[This story] would seem to be for children, but I'm not fussy who reads it.”

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Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give…

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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury…

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Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest…

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A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born.…

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Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

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