Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“It's about showing these kids that there are serious consequences for their actions.”

— Lajill Hunt

“Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings...They are spying on real grownups all the time, learning what they fight about, what their…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?”

— Thomas Hardy

“I wonder if the people of the ground ever feel that their children are too big for their world, too.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“So our job as parents is not to make a particular kind of child. Instead, our job is to provide a protected space of…

— Alison Gopnik

“There are no amateurs in the world of children.”

— Don DeLillo

“Children are assholes and they ruin everything.”

— Gabourey Sidibe

“Everyone has a part in the play – especially little kids.”

— Art Hochberg

“What a world this is, he thought. Children put us to shame with their pluck, and are shot in the back for it.”

— Frances Hardinge

“This had become a game of ours. We were serious kids made more so by the times.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.”

— Dan Pearce

“The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.”

— Richard Kelly