Children Quote by E.M. Forster

“They had started speaking of “women and children”—that phrase that exempts the male from sanity when it has been repeated a few times. Each…

— E.M. Forster

“Children, from what I had seen, were too often the fruit of men’s evil to women. And too often, instead of hating the men…

— Lake Union Publishing

“Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.”

— John Steinbeck

“Nearly all of the Nobodies he saw were men. Women, he thought, had so many more ways to connect themselves to the world--children, families,…

— Douglas Coupland

“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?”

— Homer

“Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one…

— T.A. Grey

“She mothered them. She mothered him. He hated it and loved it. He wished her quiet and prayed she would never stop talking. She…

— Amy Harmon

“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

“Then they asked, "What'll we do?" And the men replied, "I don't know." But it was all right. The women knew it was all…

— John Steinbeck

“Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times. so they chewed up the back…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“But it seemed to him that there should be a difference in his attitude. All the distress that he had ever known, the sorrow…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Men, it seemed to me in those days, were uniquely honored by the stories that erupted in their lives, whereas women were more likely…

— Carol Shields