Children Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson Download Open image ““Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.”” — Robert Louis Stevenson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Children Fiction Fiction Grown Grown man Grown Men Men Play Play Child
“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it takes the story to grow, for the real characters to emerge.” — Daniel Kaye Copy Share Image
“As far as I can tell, a young adult novel is a regular novel that people actually read.” — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Fictional worlds are a great place to indulge in unspoken fantasies. . . like writing the dad you never had. . . but desperately wanted growing up.” — Jc Morrows Copy Share Image
“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I try to keep up with what’s being done in every field, and most children’s books are ten times more enjoyable than the average… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“My boy? he is even better than books. -fiction has nothing on you.” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?” — Homer Copy Share Image
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is a fortunate… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
My school was one of the most beautiful places a child can grow up in. You are surrounded by nature - cats, dogs, birds… — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image