Children Know Quotes
34 quotes by 31 authors
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone will always be…
— Laura Bush
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Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal. Frosty the…
— Jack Nelson
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Our journey is not complete until all our children ... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.
— Barack Obama
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Children know something that most people have forgotten.
— Keith Haring
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Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
— Flannery O'Connor
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Why am I attracted to all these lying quotes all of a sudden? Here’s another one. This one by Phillip Lopate: ‘(Children know it better…
— Phillip Lopate
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Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re…
— Mem Fox
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I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults, who,…
— Jacques Lusseyran
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Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
— Anthony Hecht
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Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.
— Gregory Maguire
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If nothing has helped you decide, go ask a child. Children know what they need, and more surprisingly, the know what we need. Adults think.…
— Bernie Siegel
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The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by…
— M. Scott Peck
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Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange,…
— Carlos Fuentes
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I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know…
— Ayelet Waldman
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We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to…
— Anne Roiphe
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..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is…
— James M. Barrie
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Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early…
— Eudora Welty
Who Wrote These Children Know Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 34 Children Know Quotes, led by these top contributors: