Adults Quote by C.S. Friedman

“Children are not chattel. they cannot be given away or traded in the marketplace.”

— Garth Stein

“If children don’t push the edges now and again, what’s the point of being a child?”

— J.D. Robb

“Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.”

— China Miéville

“What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing,…

— Jodi Picoult

“In reality, each child is an investment of his parents. You are their precious fruit, after all the hard labour.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“You're a little girl but nobody stays a little girl or a little boy for long. It's a quick business being a kid.”

— J.D. Salinger

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

— Abraham Lincoln

“What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?”

— Katherine Dunn

“it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.”

— Anonymous

“My child, if I have any object in life, it is to provide for your being a good, a sensible, and a happy man.…

— Charles Dickens

“...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

“A child will always be what he is, she thought, and not what you want him to be.”

— Ken Follett