Child Quote by Claire Messud

“Contemplating the adolescence through which we scorned the wrong, some of us must wish … that we could be born old, and grow younger…

— Channing Pollock

“A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help becoming children as…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“Modern parents can take comfort from the fact that most of our teenagers come through adolescence, too—perhaps a little bruised, maybe a little humiliated,…

— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

“The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.”

— Sebastian Barry

“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into…

— Yoko Ogawa

“Life has ways of getting under your skin, spoiling your fun with too much information. Youth is truly the happiest time where we roll…

— Mark Lawrence

“The notion of this powerful childhood gaze was all the more specious given that adults, in the name of that very spontaneity, subjected chidren…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to…

— Thomas Pynchon

“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their…

— Anonymous

“In childhood, you long to grow up fast because older people are more powerful, young men more powerful. A child just longs to grow…

— Osho

“As children, because of our dependency, we experience a sense of being powerless in a world of powerful people. If our home environments are…

— Susan Forward