Calamity Quote by Shirley Hazzard

“... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping…

— Shirley Hazzard

How children attempt to deal with everyday comedies and tragedies, and mortality, is universal and ultimately such a large part of what it means…

— Paul G. Tremblay

“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

“It is a fact that it takes experience before one can realize what is a catastrophe and what is not. Children have little faculty…

— Richard Hughes

I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of…

— Maurice Sendak

Oftentimes, experiencing tragedy very young can strangely give you a kind of equilibrium.

— John Cameron Mitchell

Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

— Alfred North Whitehead

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

— Phil McGraw

The problem for me, with most movies for children, is that the filmmakers make the mistake of making it too simplistic. Where a child's…

— Niki Caro

Children tell themselves stories, engage in self-delusion and fantasy, but those narratives are more evolving than calcified - and with that malleability comes both…

— Laura van den Berg

With all the stories that we have, it's still rare that we get to see what goes on in the minds of our children…

— Rachel House

Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden…

— Emma Walton Hamilton