Children Quote by John Knowles

We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness

— Matt Prior

“On that day, in jungle hamlets and mountain villages, in cacophonous slums and sprawling refugee camps, on worn concrete floors and under roofs thatched…

— Adam Fifield

“There were still children in the world, and while there were children, men and women would not abandon the struggle to make safe homes…

— Elizabeth Goudge

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in…

— Alicia Keys

“250,000 men and women who worked in the mills are history. Some died, some became disillusioned, others simply lost their minds. Many committed suicide,…

— Hussain Zaidi

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

— Nick Nolte

“The children mingled with the adults, and spoke and were spoken to. Children in these families, at the end of the nineteenth century, were…

— A.S. Byatt

“Children worked in the mills: "I will always believe that children are designed for green meadows and play, not for factories and cotton dust.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by…

— David R. Brower

“These kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the…

— Utah Phillips

The thing that got me about the Orphan Trains was that the experiences were so varied. Some of the kids went from neglect and…

— Laura Moriarty

I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing…

— Charles Bukowski