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Children Quotes by Lois Lowry
- I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.
- I'm not terribly conversant with children's literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.
- I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and…
- I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it.…
- The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place…
- It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.
- Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of…
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- 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