Children Quote by Mary Antin

“I congratulate myself on not having arrived into this world until the present time. This age suits my taste.”

— Anne Rice

“There was a charm in being reborn into the world when one was old enough to appreciate it.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“I felt somehow happy to be so high above the world - a childish feeling, I grant, but we can't help becoming children as…

— Mikhail Lermontov

“I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the outside world,…

— Hermann Hesse

“I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older…

— Alice Hoffman

“I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of…

— Rebecca Solnit

“As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that adults so…

— K. Martin Beckner

“But then I was young, and to be young means to undertake to demolish the world and to have the gall to wish to…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.”

— Hermann Broch

“Nature felt no change, and was ever young.”

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“It is strange how, when a child, I always longed to be like grown-up people, and yet how I have often longed, since childhood’s…

— Leo Tolstoy

“We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.”

— Tanya R. Liverman