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Children Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals.…
- Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.
- Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
- When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep…
- Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart.…
- Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most…
- Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.
More Children Quotes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- 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
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the… — Frederick Lenz
- We too need to protect, guide, and encourage our young people, helping them to build a society worthy of their great spiritual… — Pope Francis
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster