Children Quote by Laurie Frankel

“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.…

— Tony Burgess

“The children you don’t especially need, you have always with you, like the poor. But the bright ones get away from you. They have…

— Willa Cather

“Children are not invited into this world, nor have a say. The least we can do is love and care for them all.”

— Alastair Agutter

“All the children who are held and loved...will know how to love others. Spread these virtues in the world. Nothing more need be done.”

— Meng Zi

“Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive our slightest defects. It general those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but…

— François Fénelon

“I saw a bunch of kids who needed love and acceptance and to be allowed to live as normal children, instead of having to…

— Dwight E. Abbott

“All children should be loved, protected, nurtured--emotionally and intellectually--respected, and never, under any circumstances, underestimated. Especially, most essentially, by themselves.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“You should trust the children; they can stand more than we can.”

— P.L. Travers

“We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.”

— Cassandra Clare

“I don't think kids are any crueler than adults. I just think kids are less adept at disguising their cruelty.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.”

— Anonymous

“Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.”

— Joseph Heller