Children Quote by Frances Hardinge

“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”

— Stephen King

“Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Children always spoke the truth, especially when it was inconvenient for everyone else.”

— K.J. Colt

“The world didn’t matter. This was us. This was our fuckedupness learning how to live without guilt and shame.”

— Pepper Winters

“Indeed, the responsibility for the world the child grows to understand lies in the collective impressions that the village provides.”

— Nora Bateson

“If we don't see to it that our children turn out better than we did, what will become of the world?”

— Esther Friesner

“It seems to me a wrong and bitter thing to do, to bring a child into this world.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“Children are assholes and they ruin everything.”

— Gabourey Sidibe

“That’s the horror, the most awful thing: to have a child the world wants to destroy and know that you’re helpless to help him.…

— Matt Ruff

“he says it gently, but I can feel a pained history behind the words. Kids can be cruel to each other. To themselves.”

— Nicola Yoon

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

— William Kamkwamba

“Children were the world as it was meant to be - and they were a light within the world. But for every light, there…

— Dean Koontz