Children Quote by Muriel Barbery

“Abruptly, they seemed alike to me and equally dear: my father, my son. I felt as though my father had been waiting for this…

— Sue Miller

“And then this man—this strong, beautiful, amazing man who’d had his innocence ripped from him at such a tender age yet was a hero…

— Anonymous

“His brows flew up. “Oh. Was it …” “Some people, when they lose a child, they never really recover. Your father couldn’t let it…

— Kate McCarthy

“My child, My love and my regret, as you were when I first laid eyes on you, a tiny old man who hadn't the…

— Nicole Krauss

“The child was slender as fleeting hope.”

— William Peter Blatty

“What a man has taken into his bloodstream in childhood from the air of that time stays with him.”

— Stefan Zweig

“was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat…

— Veronica Roth

“Shifting my dozing child, I gathered him up and carried him to his room where I pulled back his covers and laid him in…

— A.L. Jackson

“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?”

— Homer

“He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on…

— Helen Hodgman

“See him as the child he was.”

— Sydney J. Harris

“As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón