Children Quote by Kathleen Thompson Norris

“She laughed that joyous full-blown sound that children eventually grow out of, as if the world bleeds the joy from them.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it.”

— Richard J. O'Brien

“Her husband, like her children, was a person who often annoyed her but whom she loved very deeply.”

— Coral Lansbury

“As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked.”

— Terry Pratchett

“She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.”

— Rebecca West

“Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“She found beauty in the children.”

— Sinclair Lewis

“She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being…

— Jane Austen Persuasion

“...she immediately became the person they believed her to be: a peculiar, impatient girl, attractive enough yet too old and odd for the village…

— Daphne Kalotay

“How she longed for the uninhibitedness of kids her age, their vacuous sense of immortality.”

— Paolo Giordano

“she was a congenitally ungraceful girl with a mortifying inaptitude for all accomplishments.”

— Debbie Cowens

“But in truth, I think she’s always had more problems with children than she’d ever admit. I think, in fact, she hates them. There’s…

— Gillian Flynn