Children Quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

In my stories for children, I sometimes show a hard, harsh, dangerous world. I'm going to show you the way it is, but I'm…

— Kate DiCamillo

I took comfort, as a kid, in knowing that things had always been as awful and as wonderful as they were now, that the…

— Michael Chabon

People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood as soon…

— Robert Lepage

I know that life is full of lessons to be learned, and my children will have to learn their own, but I hope I…

— Jimmy Barnes

Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through…

— Graham Greene

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what…

— Augusten Burroughs

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you…

— Sarah Kane

This world is a cruel place.

— Anonymous

The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

— Iris Murdoch

The horrors of the world in general upset me. I cry when I think about how lucky I am with my lovely little family.

— Sara Cox

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

— Taylor Caldwell