Children Quote by Dwight E. Abbott

“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.…

— Tony Burgess

“All children should be loved, protected, nurtured--emotionally and intellectually--respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated. Especially, most essentially, by themselves.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.”

— Deborah Harkness

“There were still children in the world, and while there were children, men and women would not abandon the struggle to make safe homes…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“All the children who are held and loved...will know how to love others. Spread these virtues in the world. Nothing more need be done.”

— Meng Zi

“As if you could ever protect your children from what life might bring their way. Or even from themselves and their impulses.”

— Terry Brooks

“because children should have the chance to be loved by those who love them—always and no matter what.”

— Kim Harrison

“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

“We so often seek what we’re deprived of in childhood. Sheltered children become reckless. Starving children become ambitious.”

— A.G. Riddle

“The children you don’t especially need, you have always with you, like the poor. But the bright ones get away from you. They have…

— Willa Cather

“Children want to feel as though their life matters.”

— Asa Don Brown

“Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.”

— Vahan Zanoyan