Children S Quotes
45 quotes by 42 authors
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It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever…
— Tim Wynne-Jones
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I simply couldn’t conceive of how devastating it would be not to be able to hear my children’s voices. Not to be able to communicate…
— Kate Winslet
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Our women are not incredible because they have managed to avoid the difficulties of life—quite the opposite. They are incredible because of the way they…
— Quentin L. Cook
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Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full of twists and…
— Samad Behrangi
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They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.
— Douglas Gresham
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I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.
— Oliver Jeffers
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I’m one of those very lucky people who absolutely love what they do for a living. There is no career better suited to my eccentricities,…
— Mary Pope Osborne
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We need to take a less narrow look at our children’s problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunity—a way of exploring and understanding…
— Stanley Greenspan
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Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.
— Carol S. Dweck
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I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.
— Geoffrey Canada
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Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into childrenÂ’s hands.
— Charlotte Mason
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When I’m home I’m very much hands on and like to be involved in the children’s sport and music.
— David Hobson
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The answer to our prayer of how to meet our children’s needs may be to more often technologically disconnect. Precious moments of opportunity to interact…
— Rosemary M. Wixom
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People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes…
— Erin McKean
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In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the children’s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories I’ve been hearing noised about for…
— Paul O. Zelinsky
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Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains,…
— Julianne Moore
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There is no such thing as children’s literature.
— N. V. M. Gonzalez
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We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain—her whole brain—that develop skills that…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of…
— Plato
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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…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Who Wrote These Children S Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 45 Children S Quotes, led by these top contributors: