Children Quote by Edith Wharton

“To lose one child, Mr. DeTamble, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

“She considered me as if grasping all at once the incredible -- and somehow tedious, confusing and unnecessary -- fact that the distant, elegant,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery…

— Victor Hugo

“I believe, there is scarcely a young lady in the united kingdoms, who would not rather put up with the misfortune of being sought…

— Jane Austen

“Moved by an unconsious sentiment born out of solitude and savagery - idle tales of a noughty child who sometimes reflects and who is…

— Paul Gauguin

“We share so much every day, spend so much time together, that it's sometimes difficult to see all the little pieces of our days…

— Andrea Richesin

“Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughters were mysteries. They lived in rooms you had long…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

“There was once a poor shoemaker who had three fine strong sons and two pretty daughters and a third who could do nothing well,…

— A.S. Byatt

“. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”

— Charles Dickens

“would place beside her in my mind’s eye the young competent woman, proud, courageous, and generous, I’d known as a child. I was living…

— Jill Ker Conway

“Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of…

— Theodore Dreiser

“Within that quiet little girl with no apparent needs lived a person with a great imagination. In that shell I lived and grew and…

— A.R. Cecil