Children Quote by Bill Bryson

“Miss Murphy in first grade wrote its name in chalk across the board and told us it was roaring down the storm tracks of…

— Stanley Kunitz

“It was at this point, visualizing too vividly another Mr. Kaplan in the class, that anxious little lines had crept around Mr. Parkhill´s eyes.”

— Leo Rosten

“When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from…

— Thomas Love Peacock

“On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as…

— Meg Rosoff

“And as we stood half circle in the bright school yard, we saw the lost and beautiful and hungry in each of us. We…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“Carl sat musing until the sun leaped above the prairie, and in the grass about him all the small creatures of day began to…

— Willa Cather

“Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree, a bit of midday wine (the Greeks…

— Paul Russell

“Everyone is fond of plucky children, kids who launch into adventures, even (within reason) kids who sass back. What about the girl who sits…

— Janice Steinberg

“Indeed, everything that could hum, or buzz, or sing, or bloom had a part in my education--noisy-throated frogs, katydids and crickets held in my…

— Helen Keller

“My schoolmates hurried home the way they always did, the bold kids scuffling and shouting and the timid, gawky ones yearning toward a brief…

— Janice Steinberg

“Then summer came. A summer limp with the weight of blossomed things. Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences; iris curling and browning at the edges…

— Toni Morrison

“Children" Years back here we were children and at the stage of running in gangs about the meadows-- here to this one, there to…

— Robert Lowell