Children Quotes by Robertson Davies

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

— Robertson Davies

Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

— Robertson Davies

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

— Robertson Davies

It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.

— Robertson Davies

“An infant is a seed. Is it an oak seed or a cabbage seed? Who knows. All mothers think their children are…

— Robertson Davies

Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie…

— Robertson Davies

“He gave me this advice one time: Never marry your childhood sweetheart, he said; the reasons that make you choose her will…

— Robertson Davies

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is…

— Robertson Davies

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy…

— Robertson Davies

“But when mother died, Caroline was twelve, and in that queer time between childhood and nubile girlhood, when some girls seem to…

— Robertson Davies

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the…

— Robertson Davies

'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters'…

— Robertson Davies

“What really shapes and conditions and makes us is somebody only a few of us ever have the courage to face: and…

— Robertson Davies