Children Quote by Anthony Powell

“Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.”

— Joseph Heller

“Son, it is bad for a man to be condemned by his children, more so by the sons he cherishes.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“Perhaps it was something like this that changed the captive children forever; the violence they had endured when they were captured, their parents killed.…

— Paulette Jiles

“God is merciful to children, but the children must be worthy as well.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.…

— Tony Burgess

“He could not pass by children without his soul being shaken: such is the man.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind…

— Marcus Clarke

“He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence…

— Graham Greene

“There are few children more treasured than ill-behaved ones who belong to someone else.”

— Laurie Frankel

“More than ever knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity to protect…

— Paulette Jiles

“I personally guarantee you that you will carry all of the children that I can possibly give you. You were born to be a…

— Andrea Smith

“[...] he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a…

— Jonathan Safran Foer