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Children Quotes by Nina Bawden
- Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.
- Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no…
- I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books…
- Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you…
- There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have…
- I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally be…
- Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's…
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