Children Quote by Leigh Bardugo

“We were young once.”

— Roxane Gay

“I was once a daughter. We all were—Sam, Claire, me. We just didn’t know that it wasn’t forever, that we were only daughters for…

— Jennifer Handford

“Children are everything we could have been.”

— Bryant McGill

“If we could only go back and knock some sense into those kids we once were.”

— Samantha Young

“Perhaps, she mused, we never really stop being the children we once were.”

— Christina McKenna

“They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.”

— Jane Green

“All children grow up, or they die, or both. All children, except one.”

— Christina Henry

“Once a man, twice a child.”

— Hamlet

“I’m yet again increasingly glad I am an only child.”

— K.M. Shea

“Children long to be loved but at the same time they give the most love. We were once all like that.”

— Sohn Won-Pyung

“One of the children lived.”

— Michael J. Sullivan

“Our children, when young, are part of ourselves. When they grow up they are just other people.”

— Barbara Vine