Alive Quote by Charlie Higson

We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.

— David Elkind

“Dr Leila Gupta found that most children had witnessed extreme violence and did not expect to survive. Two-thirds of the children interviewed had seen…

— Ahmed Rashid

They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass…

— Tim O'Brien

They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them…

— Philip K. Dick

“They were totally alone, those kids, like each had been accidentally sent to earth from a distant planet to live among adult humans and…

— Russell Banks

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

— Ann Radcliffe

People never really died. They only went on to a better place, to wait a while for their loved ones to join them. And…

— Anonymous

In 'Last to Die,' three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later, their foster…

— Tess Gerritsen

Whatever happened to the good old days when kids was scared to death of their parents?

— Archie Bunker

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful.…

— Jill Lepore

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave…

— William Kunstler