Children Quote by Carol Ryrie Brink

“The children hid themselves, with receptive ears, round corners.”

— Christina Stead

“What was the promise with the head sick?”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The fragile and ancient hurt that seeps out of adults when they speak of wronged childhoods.”

— Martin Roper

“The dominant view was that children were essentially defective adults. They were defined by the things they didn’t know and couldn’t do.”

— Alison Gopnik

“Having hearing children meant they had to come into contact with hearing people even more frequently than they would have otherwise—hearing teachers and scout…

— Lou Ann Walker

“This, you see, is the true danger of children: they are ambushes, each and every one of them.”

— Seanan McGuire

“The spirits of children are remote and wise...”

— Frances Cornford

“It is strange how in moments of great crisis the mind whips back to childhood.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their…

— Caroline Pratt

“Children were experiments, and his had failed.”

— Maile Meloy

“I watched the kids walking past us on the sidewalk. They looked pretty much like any other kids. They were dressed for each other.…

— Robert B. Parker

“We're assigned to children who are doomed.”

— Lisa Dekis