Children Quote by Graham Greene

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

— Rebecca West

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one…

— Khaled Hosseini

It may comfort you to know that if your child reaches the age of eleven or twelve and you have a good bond or…

— Charlotte Sophia Kasl

Naughtiness is a part of growing up. It starts when you're a toddler and never ends.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise…

— Simon Soloveychik

It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around.

— Gerry Adams

Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like…

— Gaston Bachelard

It's so easy during those first few months to think that the problems will never end. You feel as if your son will never…

— Anonymous

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

— Lucille Ball

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

— Anonymous

Remember, childhood only lasts 10-12 years. There's a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories. ♥

— Susan Branch

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

— Theodore Roethke