Children Quote by Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich

“Children everywhere have similar ways of entretaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn't so big.”

— William Kamkwamba

“Children arrive animists. They learn about life, themselves, and empathy by imagining the liveliness of everything they come into contact with.”

— S. Kelley Harrell

“But the children knew, as I�m sure you know, that the worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them…

— Lemony Snicket

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

“Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannise their teachers.”

— Socrates

“Children are amazing beings and it is we who shall try to imitate them and not the other way around.”

— Lone Dybkjær

“I don't think kids are any crueler than adults. I just think kids are less adept at disguising their cruelty.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“the way they put it, we as a society have decided not to modify the society but to modify the children.”

— Noam Chomsky

“We have fallen upon evil times and the world has waxed very old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful…

— King Naram-Sin of Chaldea 3800 B.C. inscription found on an ancient tablet in a Constantinople meseu

“So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large…

— Anne Lamott

“Children are not like us. They are beings apart: impenetrable, unapproachable. They inhabit not our world but a world we have lost and can…

— Penelope Lively

“In an age that seems to be increasingly dehumanized, when people can be transformed into non-persons, and where a great deal of our adult…

— Lloyd Alexander