Children Quote by Khaled Hosseini

“Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then sitting in…

— Robert Conquest

“Everyone is fond of plucky children, kids who launch into adventures, even (within reason) kids who sass back. What about the girl who sits…

— Janice Steinberg

“There is mud everywhere, slicking the asphalt and piling up in corners along with the detritus of daily life: pop cans, cigarette butts, used…

— Isaac Marion

“Right by the edge of the fractured pavement next to the uneven road circling the square sat a fifteen-year-old boy with a hard helmet.…

— Soroosh Shahrivar

“The floor was littered with paper cups and candy wrappers and cigarette butts and other teenager droppings. I saw a used condom under my…

— David Wong

“They stood, a family, and walked out of the mall, into the sunlight, seeking to rearrange the shape of their surroundings, to blow something…

— Kevin Wilson

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.”

— Phyllis Diller

“We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our lines were…

— Laura Anderson Kurk

“The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage…

— Barack Obama

“There were families everywhere, loose loud chains of them wandering down the streets, in and out of shops, young children with rings of ice-cream…

— Niall Williams

“the children need a surface to draw on, between the flowers and fruit bowls, and sometimes it feels like a game of musical chairs…

— Louise Westerhout

“Thankfully, the farmers understand my request that the children not be allowed to peer through the windows at me. It would be alarming for…

— Kate Bernheimer