Children Quote by Terry Pratchett

“She secretly regarded her children as marvellous, even while she laughed down their youthful conceit and punished their naughtiness.”

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

“Children were very cruel and made fun of me. I could tell you many stories of times I was treated badly, and although the…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“She mothered them. She mothered him. He hated it and loved it. He wished her quiet and prayed she would never stop talking. She…

— Amy Harmon

“When she looked at me she saw a child surrounded by flames, screaming. And that must have been hard for her.”

— Miriam Toews

“Her expression was that of a woman with multiple children who was no longer surprised by anything they did, up to and including arriving…

— Gail Carriger

“She saw the children. They have been given viruses to educate them. From three weeks old they could speak and do basic arithmetic. By…

— Geoff Ryman

“But her tears wouldn't come. And right now, more than anything, she wanted to bellow her rage like an irate newborn forced to leave…

— Kate Breslin

“She laughed that joyous full-blown sound that children eventually grow out of, as if the world bleeds the joy from them.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“...it struck her, this was tragedy-- not palls, dust, and the shroud; but children coerced, their spirits subdued.”

— Virginia Woolf

“People never like me and I never like people,’ she thought. ‘And I never can talk as the other children could. They were always…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids. I was not a…

— Ariel Levy