Child Quote by Charles Dickens

“they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.”

— Charles Dickens

“there were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated mind could count, and unlike the celebrated poem, not every forty children were acting…

— Charles Dickens

“Children should be seen and not herded”

— Bill Liao

“But even during an event as exceptional as the world famous troubadour's just concluded performance, the travelers kept to themselves remaining in clearly delineated…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

“had five kids under the age of ten,”

— Jill Shalvis

What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?

— Bharati Mukherjee

At ten, a child; at twenty, wild; at thirty, tame, if ever; at forty, wise; at fifty, rich; at sixty, good or never

— Aldous Huxley

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

— Edward Hirsch

“What does this verse call children?   Did”

— Heidi Kreider

“Days" Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

— Anonymous

“It was true that the elders found everything changing all about them with a precipitation which was leaving them stripped of authority. The girls…

— Gabriel Chevallier