Children Quote by Diane Setterfield

“He disliked nearly all women and especially the young and pretty ones who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party the swallowers of…

— Orwell, George

“What might have happened to them to make them the way they were? It did not change what they now did, but it changed,…

— Sherwood Smith

“He wondered what a visitor from the past would make of it. It used to be the poor who were thin and the rich…

— Kate Atkinson

“Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom,…

— Judy Croome

“He noticed the children less and less. He was hardly a father except in the vocational sense, as a potter with clay to be…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“That's why he preferred young women. So much easier to impress. Although these days he often found them as rude and forthright as their…

— Gert Loveday

“He was not fond of young people in herds. He thought them uninteresting and crude.”

— Agatha Christie

“He wondered vaguely how many others like here there might be in the younger generation, people who had grown up in the world of…

— George Orwell

“He preferred his own judgments and, if the truth were told, his own company, too. That was how he had always been, even as…

— Benjamin Black

“There was an undeniable charm about the man, not merely the youthful airs of one who hadn’t seen the worst the world has to…

— V.E. Schwab

“They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy, monarchy, the…

— Victor Hugo