Children Quote by Washington Irving

“Van Kessel was an unusual man. He had a huge heart. He was deeply pious, but that faith was built on the idea that…

— Carl Hoffman

“There was no one for him to tell, talk to about it, about his fear and suspicion, He trusted no man nor woman, who…

— William Faulkner

“You see, he had once known a woman who had told herself she could do anything – and then decided she could do nothing;…

— Jojo Moyes

“In choosing, moreover, for his father an amiable man of fifty-two, who had already lost an only son, and for his mother a woman…

— John Galsworthy

“and in that single moment she felt as though she had seen into his soul and the very heart of the the love he…

— catrin collier

“Once inside, I stirred the banked coals of the brazier to sullen life. It did nothing to ease the chill that gripped my bones.…

— Lesley Livingston

“But in that one little window of time, many lasting decisions were made. First, any love for my father that might have remained either…

— Douglas Coupland

“That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Robert believed in restraint. He made it a point not to emulate his father. He refused to be the kind of man who took…

— Courtney Milan

“The same day, he took Sara out and bought her a great many beautiful clothes—clothes so grand and rich that only a very young…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Tristan the child had been gone for a long time. He had gone where children go, slipped away into manhood as if he’d never…

— Lise McClendon

“Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits and humor.…

— William Styron