Quotes of: American-children Keyword

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

The Accursed

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.

Arguably: Selected Essays

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

Afterwards

She saw the scarlet thread of her lips, the light in her eyes, the family through their love, their children running barefoot in a fresh field.

The Address Of Happiness

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Anna Karenina

To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.

Abundant Living

This is a grave. There is no honor here in broken tools and old bones, only in the deeds of our children.

Hellboy, Vol. 6: Strange Places

Children love to polish brass and silver, then move on to polishing their own shoes.

How To Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.

I Learn from Children

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

I Learn from Children

Made weird children--will die proud. -Rachel Pealer

It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure

Children have always liked the princess story, but they never knew what was her name. I think the princess was, is and will always be you.

I Love You Too

The dream too thinks twice, gets filtered to go soft to be seated on children's eyes.

Jeevanko Chheubaata

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.

Jane Eyre

Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one.

A Journey of the Heart

Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.

The Journal Keeper: A Memoir

We all die one day, but jewels never fade or perish. Through our children we live. That’s how we cheat death.

Kindertransport: A Drama

Children are born atheists. Then they are indoctrinated and abused by so-called 'God's representatives.' Innocents are scarred emotionally and psychologically by those who are sworn to protect them.

Klarity

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

To Kill a Mockingbird

The arms, legs, and torso with head were dragged away in sections as the children were captivated by the drama, zealously chewing their candies with sticky teeth.

Revenge of the Wolf

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

Saturn's Children