Children Quote by Alison Gopnik

“Adults never explained anything. They saw children as akin to small animals, creatures who had to be tugged and beaten into adulthood before they…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

“In those days, you must understand, children were basically thought to be inadequate adults. A child’s nature was not something that could be developed,…

— Andrew Davidson

“The thought that babies would become children, and children would become people, never occurred to them. The concept that perhaps biology was not destiny,…

— Seanan McGuire

“Children do not have reasoning capability or emotive development; thus, they are unable to precisely gauge what is going on with them.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their…

— Caroline Pratt

“I wondered about the kids who everyone had decided were bad. The lost ones, the problems. What became of them when they were adults?…

— Avery Sawyer

“Children were experiments, and his had failed.”

— Maile Meloy

“could remember what it was like to be four, thinking that the adults were in control. When you became an adult yourself, it became…

— Anni Taylor

“We were children then. We are allowed to make mistakes, to figure out who we wish to be.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“the way they put it, we as a society have decided not to modify the society but to modify the children.”

— Noam Chomsky

“It struck me that the beauty we attribute to children isn’t something they have that we don’t. It's something they do, which we have…

— Christina Carson