Child Quote by Christina Stead

“Knowing that there was such a thing as outdoors bred in us a hunger for property, for ownership. The firm possession of a yard,…

— Toni Morrison

“They drove out of the driveway and onto the road, venturing forth into the horizon, spacious and empty, hanging before them blackly, and offering…

— R.J. Lawrence

But Sam turned to Bywater, and so came back up the Hill, as day was ending once more. And he went on, and there…

— Anonymous

“We stepped a little quicker, laughed a little louder and chatted over the fences a little longer. We gathered bouquets of wildflowers, dined on…

— Arlene Stafford-Wilson

“Then summer came. A summer limp with the weight of blossomed things. Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences; iris curling and browning at the edges…

— Toni Morrison

“few odd souls wandered about Surf Avenue looking for something to do. Sheets of newspaper blew like tumbleweed down broad, empty streets. Overhead, a…

— William Hjortsberg

“Young Sam at this point had tired of petticoat company and had drifted over to an elderly goblin man who was working on a…

— Terry Pratchett

Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks,…

— Anonymous

“They walked, some of them for miles, from rural villages deep in the bush. They came in wheelbarrows, in wheelchairs. They came with babies…

— Helene Cooper

“So he bought tickets to the Greyhound and they climbed, painfully, inch by inch and with the knowledge that, once they reached the top,…

— Nelson Algren

“Now I stand before houses set on our secret trail, the haunt of arrowheads and lost Indians the color of small plums, rooms in…

— Thomas Dukes

“There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the…

— Shel Silverstein