Children Quote by G. K. Chesterton

“I had the whole road to myself, for no one was yet stirring, and I walked on, with a slouching, dogged gait. The gray…

— Herman Melville

“Toddlers were running the place like some miniature version of Lord of the Flies, complete with weapons made from blocks and tinker toys. One…

— Piper Vaughn

“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

“Shifting my dozing child, I gathered him up and carried him to his room where I pulled back his covers and laid him in…

— A.L. Jackson

“We ate simply, we were healthy, and we were uninterested in those things that should be called possessions not because they are possessed but…

— Mark Helprin

“I had a boyfriend once who sent me--in a plastic bag, so it wouldn't drip--a real cow's heart with a real arrow stuck through…

— Margaret Atwood

“I wrote a poem once — a simple thing, but instinct with longing — while sitting under a tree and listening to the cooing…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or…

— John Steinbeck

“THE POETRY TEACHER The university gave me a new, elegant classroom to teach in. Only one thing, they said. You can’t bring your dog.…

— Mary Oliver

“And on the endless dusty ribbon of the highway, on sunken roads vaulted over by branches, on paths between stands of grain that rose…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He was a precocious and delicate little boy, quivering with the malaise of being unloved. When we played, his child's heart would come into…

— Harold Brodkey

“Men got two guns, you know. One for now," he tapped the barrel of his gun against her nose. "And one for later." When…

— Mindy McGinnis