Children Quote by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“The dominant view was that children were essentially defective adults. They were defined by the things they didn’t know and couldn’t do.”

— Alison Gopnik

“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

“I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.”

— Karen White

“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don’t really know what they mean.”

— William Faulkner

“Children understand...things far better. Adults always make things so complicated.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“I’ve alway been struck by how little adults understand children, even their own fathers and mothers. Nothing should be kept from children on the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“There are people who say that children don't behave the way adults tell them to, but the way they see adults behave. Perhaps that's…

— Fredrik Backman

“All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was…

— Jonathan L. Howard

“Children were in fact ferocious little animals, sharp and canny and hurt and eager to inflict hurt themselves, who were trying to get what…

— Pamela Erens

“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

“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

“No child, still less a foetus, has ever mastered the art of small talk, or would ever want to. It’s an adult device, a…

— Ian McEwan