Children Quote by Jessica Shattuck

“The radiance of this beautiful scene shed a cruel light on every past horror, every insult tolerated, every unspoken retort, every gesture of rejection.…

— Nina George

“She was young, a Stranger to the World, and consequently to the Dangers of it; and having no Body in Town, at that Time,…

— Eliza Haywood

“Those who looked with revulsion at the oppressive might of her arms, were obliged to marvel at the egalitarian nature of her social programmes.”

— A. H. Septimius

“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”

— Charles Williams

“She thought of the boy thrown into the cauldron of war, the girl beset by various bigotries, her life in danger, and saw how…

— Nadeem Aslam

“Children were not pets, not furniture, not items put on earth to bring pleasure to people who owned them, she raged to herself.”

— C.J. Box

“What she called the nastiness of life was the shock she received upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the pieces included…

— Toni Morrison

“She was no longer a child, to be cowed or forced into submission, but a grown woman with a definite purpose and an invincible…

— Kamala Markandaya

“She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl…

— Gene Stratton Porter

“Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it…

— Thomm Quackenbush