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Best Children Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized…
- And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will…
- The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb,…
- A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns…
- When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door.…
- Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.
- I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor…
- Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at…
- But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have turned out all right –…
- Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.
- God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a…
- Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.
- Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a…
- Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?
- The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden…
- All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you get to rule…
- You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for…
- If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon