Children Quote by Michael J. Compton

“There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.”

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheek Thy loving childern here in them thy comfort seek With sympathetic care their arms…

— W.S. Gilbert

“All the children who are held and loved...will know how to love others. Spread these virtues in the world. Nothing more need be done.”

— Meng Zi

“Loving children is easy. Keeping them is hard.”

— Michael Robotham

“You know, when children are silent and proud, and they try to keep back their tears when they are in great trouble and suddenly…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“he says it gently, but I can feel a pained history behind the words. Kids can be cruel to each other. To themselves.”

— Nicola Yoon

“When I am come to mine own again, I will always honor little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed me in…

— Mark Twain

“Do Not Ignore My Voice Take My hand, My child, and let Me show you what I have planned for you. I will guide…

— Adam Houge

“Have mercy, O Lord, on my children, In my children, Call to mind your childhood, You who were a child. Let them that are…

— Ephrem the Syrian

“Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else’s joy.”

— Amy Tan

“But children die how they have been living-with hope. They don't what is happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold…

— Téa Obreht

“I am not sentimental about kids. Little monsters, most of them, who don’t civilize until they are grown and sometimes not then.”

— Robert A. Heinlein