Children Quote by Christine Lemmon

“I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck anymore what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy. Incurably healthy.…

— Henry Miller

“And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you think of…

— Rilke Letters to a Young Poet

“The idea of not being a kid anymore terrifies me. I am an adult and I have been hurled out of the world of…

— Kelley York

“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things and grown-up…

— Christina Henry

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“You can become unhinged and cut loose from the world. You can believe you are a permanent outsider. But the innocence of a child…

— Michael Connelly

“Unhappiness where's when I was young, And we didn't give a damn, 'Cause we were raised, To see life as fun and take it…

— Dolores O'Riordan

“It’s kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there’s no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve,…

— Lauren Oliver

“My child? A man has no children, it is only woman who has children, and therefore the future is hers when we die childless.”

— August Strindberg

“It’s not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by…

— Thomas H. Cook

“Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child.”

— Cisero

“She thinks I’m a child who needs to be protected from the horrors of grown-ups, because she somehow forgot that the world of children…

— Sam J. Miller