Childhood Quote by Nicholas Sparks

“She did not especially appreciate children either, but could be kind to them when they were silent.”

— Gordon Dahlquist

“From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their…

— Caroline Pratt

“She had still had the loved child's belief that it would not be allowed for anything too bad to happen to her.”

— Zen Cho

“most of all, she’d learned that she had to rely on herself. Certainly her father and her sister couldn’t be counted on.”

— Kristin Hannah

“Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Plus she’d been taught to appreciate what she had. It seemed as if today’s kids focused on things they didn’t have and how to…

— Kendra Elliot

“I felt there was a lot I needed to teach her. I wanted to give her an early grounding in the basics of arithmetic…

— Jeannette Walls

“She had managed after he died to get the two of them through college and beyond; but she had observed that the more education…

— Flannery O'Connor

“It struck me as funny that she was on the other side of the world having the exact same realization as I was: that…

— Caitlyn Duffy

“Parents, she thought, learned to survive touching their children less and less.”

— Celeste Ng

“It stung, the notion that my child belonged more to her mother than to me, but I learned to accept it.”

— Shulem Deen

“What's more, she lacked the good sense to understand how our lives are enriched by the minor interactions that present themselves every day.”

— Miriam Karmel