Children Quote by Maria Semple

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children, grew up as brothers and…

— Oliver Tambo

“BEYOND THE FARM, they’d heard, there were strange pale children who grew up entirely indoors and knew nothing of the fields and streams. Some…

— Julie Otsuka

“It wasn't until the 1920s that a bare majority of children grew up in families where the father's labor purchased the family's provisions, while…

— Stephanie Coontz

“But that was all teachers ever did, wasn’t it? They grew and grew and grew until they wondered if they were the only ones…

— Mynah K

“As he grew, the other children grew as well—all except poor Doroon, who seemed doomed to be short and skinny all his life. Rundorig”

— David Eddings

My mother, who is a Carnatic musician, started a school for children when I was around three, and I grew up listening to her…

— Sid Sriram

“What was the good of trying to keep your own (children) if when they grew up their days were like your own- changeovers and…

— Harriette Simpson Arnow

How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

— Margo Lanagan

My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag…

— Dolores Huerta

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement…

— Harpo Marx

“Seasons turned, apple blossoms blushed and withered, fruit swelled and dropped, snow fell and melted, and children grew to bear children of their own,…

— Kali Wallace