“ Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil") Julian Hawthorne
“ The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. He has no awares… Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“ It is a curious fact that small boys are more terrified of their babysitters than small girls are. In part, this is because small girls and babysitters, who are usually slightly larger girls, belong t… John Connolly
“ We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward to but rising sea levels and imminent mass extincti… Grant Morrison
“ We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable… Victoria Moran
“ Remember when only a few people had mobile phones. Generally regarded as an object of derision, you would occasionally see business types clutching those ridiculous grey bricks to their faces and mutt… Simon Pegg
“ The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line. Eileen Kennedy-Moore
“ Saturday mornings, I’ve learned, are a great opportunity for kids to sneak into your bed, fall back asleep, and kick you in the face. Dan Pearce
“ They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways. He'd put himself outside and outside they'd make him stay. Neither brut… John McGahern
“ Very young children often accept the paranormal as “normal” until adults squeeze it out them. Doug Dillon
“ Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children. Kelli Jae Baeli
“ If the traditional Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) are the basics that we want our children to master academically, then reverence, respect, and responsibility are the three Rs that our children… Zoe Weil
“ I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one. Albert Einstein
“ Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, cont… Thomas S. Monson
“ Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew.""He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six.""Right.""And you're the o… Orson Scott Card
“ A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go. Falling in love can do that, you think. And so can a wild party. You marvel at the way each has the power to forev… Anita Shreve
“ Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous ... Suzanne Collins
“ Bear in mind, children, that they listen to you because you are kids—not because you are right. That's how our Father listens to us. Rich Mullins
“ Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed? Ransom Riggs
