Children Quote by Arthur Machen

“He put off the faith of his childhood quite simply, like a cloak that he no longer needed. At first life seemed strange and…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful…

— Feodor Dostoevsky

“The thing about fairy tales was having faith in the things that don't come true, and appreciating them when they do.”

— Shey Stahl

“In that moment, and perhaps for much longer, it seemed to me that the possibility of believing in fairies was more important than one…

— Hazel Gaynor

“And Miss Potter? Well, having believed in fairies when she was a child and continuing to believe in the creative power of the imagination,…

— Susan Wittig Albert

“He noticed the children less and less. He was hardly a father except in the vocational sense, as a potter with clay to be…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“They were real people who entertained and argued and existed entirely independently from him, although he had set the thing in motion. They had…

— Zadie Smith

“To see each of his ugly, selfish motives changed into a good and generous one by the simplicity of a child was a singular…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Both their attention and their neglect were equally intolerable. His world had become complicated and interesting and magical. Theirs was mundane and domestic. They…

— Lev Grossman

“he saw and recognised the visible and he sought his place in this world. He did not seek reality; his goal was not on…

— Hermann Hesse

“Good and bad, he was taken for granted; she was much more lenient to him than to any of the children. She welcomed the…

— Kathleen Thompson Norris