Children Quote by Brian D'Ambrosio

“The deceits which her spinster's sentimentality has practiced on her original good judgment are legendary and colossal; she has this way of speaking of…

— Alice Munro

“What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic…

— Donna Tartt

“In his dominions children grow unloving between parents who have never loved; infants are nursed on deception from their very birth; they are reared…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The only thing worse than having a family, I discovered, is not having a family. My rejection of bourgeois virtues as mean-spirited and antithetical…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.”

— Joan Didion

“I am convinced that an immense number of people who have children should not have them, and do not particularly want them, except as…

— Sydney J. Harris

“Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.”

— Ann Packer

“And I notice too often that the most unfeeling of people relieve their shuttered hearts by cooing over babies, who when grown , will…

— Jeanette Winterson

“peculiar, or sad, and yet still deserve a place within the circle of familial love. The parents would thus have created an invaluable wellspring…

— Alain de Botton

“All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“And in thy best consideration check This hideous rashness. Answer my life my judgement Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least, Nor are…

— William Shakespeare

“I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of…

— Harriet A. Jacobs