Adherence Quote by Murray Kempton

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

— Hesiod

“Children—their untroubled, idyllic vision of the future is almost always shattered. Sooner or later they learn what all youth must—that life is the cruel…

— Andrew Levkoff

“Children have always tumbled down rabbit holes, fallen through mirrors, been swept away by unseasonal floods or carried off by tornadoes. Children have always…

— Seanan McGuire

As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.

— Mitch Albom

“Do not forget that children are like rainbows; they come in an array of personalities, levels of resiliency, and a variety of temperaments.”

— Asa Don Brown

Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents,…

— Alan Lightman

“They also create wormholes in time, transporting their mothers and fathers back to feelings and sensations they haven't had since they themselves were young.…

— Jennifer Senior

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

“once a willful child who, like many willful children, felt most secure at home, has grown into an extravagantly social and nonconforming adult, one…

— Rachel Simon

“The kid, whose existence became a hallucination at seven, and a catastrophe at fourteen, and a disaster after that, whose vocation is to be…

— Philip Roth

The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent…

— Brian Selznick

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no…

— Alasdair MacIntyre