Children Quote by Marilynne Robinson

“I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of…

— Harriet A. Jacobs

“Children were not pets, not furniture, not items put on earth to bring pleasure to people who owned them, she raged to herself.”

— C.J. Box

“Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.”

— Nikita Dudani

“This was the common criminal pursuit of all contemporary humankind. Give my child an Ikea desk and twelve hours a day of sedentary typing.…

— Dave Eggers

“Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“My mother was in the bathtub crying and I was standing outside the door waiting, just in case she decided to slip her head…

— Eula Biss

“But here there were houses full of *stuff*, fancy sheets woven with silk floss as soft as a baby's bum; fancy washstands carved of…

— Meredith Duran

“she would say to the children as they crowded about her bent shoulders, peering at her satin stitch or Madeira work, “my kids too:…

— Christina Stead

“The notion of children makes me ill. The thought of having one... when you see those guys in the supermarket, wheeling the trolley around…

— John Niven

“Found naked with a few of his grandfather’s kitchen maids? His father’s claw right to the back of the head. Suggest that when his…

— G.A. Aiken

“Families shelter their knowledge, keeping it safe and beloved like a delicate heirloom, away from the careless stomping of strangers.”

— Random House Canada

“They had no children. They spent money on the house, and for five years it went through an elaborate series of new looks each…

— Niall Williams