Children Quote by Sarah Bird

“Ever since he was a little boy, he had always tried to make things sound better than they actually were.”

— Larry McMurtry

“Maybe once he wished I was his daughter, because it was plain that my news was hard for him to hear.”

— Ann Patchett

“It was not a musical voice, and yet it affected him like music.”

— Ann Patchett

“Was this the voice we wanted in our daughters’ heads? Our granddaughters’? Our nieces’? Or our sons’ or grandsons’ or nephews’ heads for that…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“There were a few other moves of his father's he could do without as well - the sucker punches, the ruffling of the hair,…

— Margaret Atwood

“You should listen to even the smallest voice, someday it could be the one that makes a difference.”

— Crystal Marcos

“Of course he won my heart. Many children did. I often thought that I should have liked children of my own if it were…

— Jean Plaidy

“Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now…

— Carson McCullers

“I felt like a trophy child, someone he had around to show off. It felt like it was more important that his daughter was…

— H.M. Ward

“...this new delicacy, this suggestions of mortal time working on her just as it works on everybody, spoke to me more loudly than any…

— Zadie Smith

“He was little more than a voice. And I heard-him-it-this voice-other voices-all of them were so little more than voices-and the memory of that…

— Joseph Conrad

“People asked if I was his daughter. They ask all the time. Hoping, accusing. We never say yes, and we never say no.”

— Kirsteen Reed