Children Quote by James Joyce

“i was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love…

— Paulo Coelho

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Children were very cruel and made fun of me. I could tell you many stories of times I was treated badly, and although the…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child.”

— Bryant McGill

“Wasn’t it hard that you did so much for children and loved them so deeply and they seemed so indifferent to you in return?”

— Maeve Binchy

“Fun. Wasn't that really the beauty of childhood? That you measured experiences by how much fun they were, not by how much work or…

— Katherine Heiny

“It was to the small serious boy that he turned for his enjoyment. He had bought the child some cheap wooden blocks, and with…

— Alan Paton

“Being a child was not fun for me.”

— Alex Witchel

“Boredom is not the enemy of childhood. It’s the birthplace of imagination, persistence, and quiet strength.”

— P. Pra. Sandhyaya

“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.…

— Tony Burgess

“But I was not especially skilled at minding children for long spells; I grew bored, perhaps like my own mother. After I spent too…

— Lorrie Moore

“I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids. I was not a…

— Ariel Levy