Children Quote by Lorrie Moore

“She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~”

— Susan Wiggs

“She secretly regarded her children as marvellous, even while she laughed down their youthful conceit and punished their naughtiness.”

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

“A mother knows her children’s weaknesses, even if she sometimes refuses to acknowledge them.”

— Mary Campisi

“What she called the nastiness of life was the shock she received upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the pieces included…

— Toni Morrison

“But in truth, I think she’s always had more problems with children than she’d ever admit. I think, in fact, she hates them. There’s…

— Gillian Flynn

“Sometimes Naomi marvelled at how much [children] seemed to know, how their chatter and play landed nearly square on adult matters of love and…

— Paul Elwork

“She was a grown up now, and she discovered that being a grown up was not quite what she had suspected it would be…

— Stephen King

“She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears…

— Lewis Carroll

“Even in the little while she'd been teaching, she'd met parents who didn't seem to care about their children, regarding them as more of…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“She did not especially appreciate children either, but could be kind to them when they were silent.”

— Gordon Dahlquist

“I knew how to raise my own child, what did he think it was, a game of Scrabble or Monopoly, there are no rules,…

— Nicole Krauss