Children Quote by Peter Shaffer

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

— Peter Shaffer

“Every single person is vulnerable to unexpected defeat in this inmost emotional self. At every moment, behind the most efficient seeming adult exterior, the…

— Anonymous

“Safety and innocence don't exist in nature. Childhood is a social construct, an ideological fever dream afforded by those whose mothers call miracles rather…

— Sung Yim

“Children are barometers of the chaos that exists within their lives.”

— Asa Don Brown

“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into…

— Yoko Ogawa

“There is child in all of us that refuses to grow up, a child that is in awe of what can be, the polar…

— Shatrujeet Nath

“This, you see, is the true danger of children: they are ambushes, each and every one of them. A person may look at someone…

— Seanan McGuire

“Throughout the lives of mortals, there are always pivotal moments. Most often, those moments are so subtle we barely appreciate how momentous they are.…

— Jeff Wheeler

“You bring a child into this fractious, chaotic world out of the heat of your womb, and then spend the next ten years walking…

— Noah Hawley

“Babies hold a secret about the human mind that has been hidden for millennia. They are our double. They have a primordial drive to…

— Scott R. Garrels

“Children enter the world with a great deal of love and trust. They are not yet able to perceive good and bad, but they…

— Rahima Baldwin Dancy

“Children everywhere have similar ways of entretaining themselves. If you look at it this way, the world isn't so big.”

— William Kamkwamba