Children Quote by Zadie Smith

“I remember saying to my mother, ‘Why do you have so many children? Is it hard to have children?’ And she said, ‘Oh, no.…

— Margaret Powell

“The children you don’t especially need, you have always with you, like the poor. But the bright ones get away from you. They have…

— Willa Cather

“One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

“There's something impoverished in those who want to really have everything.”

— Paul Scheerbart

“Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”

— Napoleon Hill

“I used to wonder why... Mum kept having babies... that was the only pleasure poor people could afford . It cost nothing--at least at…

— Margaret Powell

“Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a…

— David Cameron

“No matter how poor a person is, if they have a family than they are rich.”

— Someone You've Probably Never Heard Of

“There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.”

— Tom Morrison

“We so often seek what we’re deprived of in childhood. Sheltered children become reckless. Starving children become ambitious.”

— A.G. Riddle

“A poor child knew what it meant to be poor. We didn't ask for much, and sometimes we didn't even ask.”

— Da Chen

“and I discovered my limitations, and mainly I learned that there was a price to pay for that childhood (it turns out there’s no…

— David Grossman