Children Quote by Shoeburn Ruffet

“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world…

— Brock Clarke

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

— Penelope Lively

“That's the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don't really care, or at least they don't care enough to let…

— Peter Monn

“Parents have no idea how little they know about the people they gave life to.”

— Laura Tims

“Talking to children is like testifying in court, answer just whatÄs asked, don't elaborate, and don't volunteer information.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don’t really know what they mean.”

— William Faulkner

“Becoming an adult is all about accepting that you didn't know anything when you were a kid.”

— Andrew Sturm

“Typically, I didn't know what to say so I didn't say anything.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“But I could never see what was so awful and wrong about being honest. And I didn’t think it had anything to do with…

— Josie Bloss

“The thing was, with parenting grown children, you had to learn to hold your tongue. If you wanted them to tell you anything, that…

— Joanna Trollope

“Conversations with adults other than a person's parents had more of an outcome.”

— Richard Ford

“When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something…

— Alexandra Bracken