“ Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers. Bryant McGill
“ God sends little children to speak and act for him. In their simplicity and naivety they say and do things that we adults never would, but which can reveal deep truths about the way the world should b… Phil Steer
“ Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping them to find that door and open it with them. Let’s set the example and help to foster this… Carmela Dutra
“ Something must have happened, your mother speculated. In her mind a woman with no child could only be explained by vast untrammeled calamity. Maybe she just doesn't like children.Nobody likes children… Junot Diaz
“ Parents in the early half of the twentieth century were primarily concerned with the development of character in their children. They wanted to be certain that their children were ready to cope with a… Paula Polk Lillard
“ The world doesn't owe you anything because you're in it, but you owe yourself the world because it is in you. Kat Kaelin
“ The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it Jeremy Griffith
“ We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer… Samuel R. Delany
“ If you tell an eight-year-old she has a talent for something, she'll never give it a rest. Lauren Leto
“ We watch them grow, with sadness and amazement and fear. We have stepped away, but not entirely away. They know this. They sense it. We are no longer here, but we are not yet gone. And we will be like… David Levithan
“ A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of rea… Charlotte Bronte
“ Who's Johnnie Walker?""It's a drink. For grown-ups.""Is it nice?""Makes you drunk.""What's it like being drunk?" "Like being awake and asleep at the same time.""Sounds nice." "It was meant to sound te… Tom Rachman
“ To retreat into oneself and meet nobody for hours on end—that is what one must be able to attain. To be alone, as one was alone as a child, when the grown-ups walked about involved in things which see… Rainer Maria Rilke
“ Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books. Theodore Roosevelt
“ And why is it that so many years later it is so easy to distinguish the bullies from their prey? Adult bodies surrounding the children of long ago. The years have changed nothing. Leila Aboulela
“ If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the k nowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then th… Urie Bromfenbrennner
“ I thought, Dad.Could I go to Vietnam for you?Dad, I could do it. I could do it for you. I could go to the places you fought. I could find the bits and pieces of your heart and soul left behind. If I b… Tucker Elliot
