Children Quote by Ginny L. Yttrup

“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up…

— Brené Brown

“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things and grown-up…

— Christina Henry

“Our children make us so vulnerable. Our parents too, I suppose.”

— Sara Sheridan

“We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.”

— Chuck Klosterman

“I was young enough to think that insecurity disappeared with maturity.”

— Amanda Knox

“Surely one’s childhood concerns must be hard to encounter decades later, regardless of the life fallen between.”

— Ruthanna Emrys

“...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

“I think perhaps the adults we become are formed in childhood and there's no way around it.”

— John Boyne

“When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things . . .”

— Emma Chase

“I always intended to grow up with my kids, not old with them.”

— Trevor David Dawson

“There was something about the people you grew up around, the ones you'd seen throughout your childhood, the folks you couldn't remember not knowing.…

— J.R. Ward

“And we all know, too, that those words really don’t damage children much. They didn’t damage us when we were young. It was evil…

— Kurt Vonnegut