Child Quote by Glennon Doyle Melton

“You were a child, you didn't mean to hurt my feelings. Children are ignorant. It takes an adult to choose to be cruel.”

— Jan Strnad

“The cruelty of children is more shocking than the cruelty of adults. Not only was I shocked, I was angry. But it felt somehow…

— Charlaine Harris

“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

“I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.”

— Glen Duncan

“People might think that five-year-olds can't be cruel, but I have some strong evidence to the contrary".”

— Vera Brosgol

“Children remember who showed them kindness when the world tried to make them cruel.”

— K. Arsenault Rivera

“The children will come to no harm." "Except for the older ones. Like that poor kid down there." "Mr. Scoresby, that is the way…

— Philip Pullman

“Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.”

— Vahan Zanoyan

“There are few children more treasured than ill-behaved ones who belong to someone else.”

— Laurie Frankel

“Children can be so cruel,’ the Doctor said. ‘Children’s writers can be even worse.”

— Puffin

“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don’t really know what they mean.”

— William Faulkner

“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