Children Quote by Steve Toltz

“Perhaps, people of our kind can’t love. The childlike people can; that’s their secret.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Make no mistake, every child has his own light, no matter how difficult or defiant or unlikeable he or she might seem.”

— Nancy Rose

“It is ever the lot of children to accept their circumstances as universal, and their particularities as general.”

— M.T. Anderson

“And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if…

— Robin Hobb

“All the children who are held and loved...will know how to love others. Spread these virtues in the world. Nothing more need be done.”

— Meng Zi

“he says it gently, but I can feel a pained history behind the words. Kids can be cruel to each other. To themselves.”

— Nicola Yoon

“I mourned the child I had known who was kind and sweet and curious, and yet could not stop killing.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“There is a rare gentleness in you, the sweeter for its brief appearances.”

— Kamala Markandaya

“Now I recall my emotions at that moment, children seem to me a remarkable race. They want so much to murder so many people,…

— Rebecca West

“Children long to be loved but at the same time they give the most love. We were once all like that.”

— Sohn Won-Pyung

“Children remember who showed them kindness when the world tried to make them cruel.”

— K. Arsenault Rivera

“...the kindness you can only hope happens to your children, because while you can teach a person to act kindly, you can't really teach…

— Jay Caspian King