Children Quote by Augusten Burroughs

“It's not that I was an outright nitwit of a child.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world…

— Brock Clarke

“Parents were what they were; it was not up to you to try to puzzle them out.”

— Katherine Paterson

“You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except for the…

— Joan Walton Collaso

“I steeled myself for this interaction. Fact: I knew I could talk to people. Fact: Children were little people. Little, scary people. I took…

— Conor Grennan

“Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again”

— Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“There were too many things suddenly that I didn’t understand, and I didn’t know what to do about it. I knew that I needed…

— Fred Chappell

“The thing was, with parenting grown children, you had to learn to hold your tongue. If you wanted them to tell you anything, that…

— Joanna Trollope

“Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.”

— Nancy Rose

“The most sophisticated people I know--inside they're all children. We never really loose a certain sense we had when we were kids.”

— Jim Henson

“That was other thing I hated about kids; they always said the exact things that deep down you already knew, would never admit, and…

— Cecelia Ahern

“I wasn't exactly good with children. I wasn't bad with them, as such. I just wasn't around them much and, because of that, when…

— Kristen Ashley