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Children Quotes by Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books…
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply…
- I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about…
- I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
- I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.
- I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so…
- There is no part of me that feels that I represented myself as your children’s babysitter or their teacher. I was always, I think, completely…
- I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a…
- But if it matters to you, you'll be able to choose Gryffindor over Slytherin. The Sorting Hat takes your choice into account." "Really?" "It did…
- Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they…
- Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the…
- You - will - never - touch - our - children - again!' screamed Mrs. Weasley. Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius…
- There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
- I speak now, Harry Potter, directly to you. You have permitted your friends to die for you rather than face me yourself. I shall wait…
- And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children's tales, of…
- Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should…
- Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared…
- How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know,…
- Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls —…
- You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.
- He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek;…
- Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need to learn to…
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