Children Quote by Brynna Gabrielson

“Big surprise. Mom had instituted a curfew. Like there was something we’d do after midnight that we wouldn’t do before.”

— Rachel Hawthorne

“. . . parent could embarrass their kids during the teenage years, but only a true virtuoso could embarrass them into their twenties and beyond.”

— Danielle Monsch

“Near home I ran through our park, where I had aired my children on weekends and late-summer afternoons. I stopped at the northeast playground,…

— Grace Paley

“You may have done some bad things, but that doesn't mean you're a bad kid.”

— Louis Sachar

“But one of the cruelties of teenagehood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and they’ll never…

— Una LaMarche

“When a child knows that young that her mother doesn't care for her, bad things happen.”

— Gillian Flynn

“A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse. So much worse, Mom said. But because of you…

— George Saunders

“I was always the youngest person to do things, until I wasn't!”

— Captain Hank Bracker

“God, youth is a terrible time! So much feeling and so little notion of how to handle it!”

— Robertson Davies

“This is one of those times when I really wish I was older. That I hadn’t had you at sixteen. Maybe if I was…

— Kelly Hashway

I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of…

— Mahershala Ali