Child Quote by Leo Tolstoy

Children blessings seem, but torments are.

— Thomas Otway

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.

— C.J. Sansom

“But I've still better things about children. I've collected a great, great deal about Russian children, Alyosha. There was a little girl of five…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing…

— Joyce Cary

“I am persuaded that the phrase 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom…

— Richard Dawkins

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

— Nan Fairbrother

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt,…

— Charles Dickens

“When the manipulations of childhood are a little larceny, they may grow and change with the child into qualities useful and admired in the…

— Leontine R. Young

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new…

— June Jordan

Kids are very cruel to each other.

— Natalie Dormer

Kids are cruel.

— Jabari Parker

“There’s a general sense now that children’s rights, children’s needs, children’s wants and desires have taken on too prominent a place in our family…

— Judith Warner