Children Quote by Laurie Frankel

“This had become a game of ours. We were serious kids made more so by the times.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Our children are not happy. I believe this is because over the last half century we have increasingly monitored, supervised and attended to them,…

— Sara Maitland

“I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me…

— James Joyce

“Our childhood is too brief to fill it with activities that stifle our spirit and rob our joy.”

— Richard Blackaby

“Every moment with your child is precious, no matter how long they live, no matter the number of their days.”

— Ned Hayes

“One may do many things in a long life. I also played a great deal of tennis and brought up three children. There's time…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“That was our parents’ game; it was too hard for children.”

— Tim Guest

“A child worries about what would make him happy, but a man does what is necessary.”

— Olan Thorensen

“Why weren’t they just overcome with joy every time they looked at those kids? Why in the world were they divorcing?”

— Liane Moriarty

“in those days nobody talked about being happy, like they do now – nobody minded whether children were happy, the really important thing was…

— D.E. Stevenson

“Those joys were in the past, But still the man is a child at heart.”

— Vinod Varghese Antony

“Children need more time to be simply children and adults need more time to remember their childhood and how they once played.”

— Ellen Palestrant