Children Quote by Kate Morton

“While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.”

— John Williams

“But those who were young had no thought left for spring and those who still thought were not young any longer.”

— Ayn Rand

“When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a…

— Murray Kempton

“Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?”

— Margaret Atwood

“His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and happiness and regrets like a moon upon a younger earth.”

— James Joyce

“What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.”

— Oscar Wilde

“...and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...”

— Nick Joaquín

“They were still in that forgiving time when even their flaws were quaint.”

— Peter Murphy

“In the next age they loved them and praised them.”

— Lao Tzu

“Already at the age of sixteen I wondered at them gloomily; I was amazed at the pettiness of their minds, the stupidity of their…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“When they were alone, they said nothing. They looked at the view; they looked at what they knew, to see if what they knew…

— Virginia Woolf

“And although we'd sworn we'd never become like them, that was exactly what was happening. We weren't even fifteen yet. Thirteen, fourteen, adult, dead.”

— Janne Teller