12 Quotes on Children from Books

Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 12 quotes about Children that I underlined from various books. I hope you will like these quotes too.

By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.

Children Quotes from My Friends book by Fredrik Backman

  • Imagination is a child's only weapon.
  • A child's brain is peculiar, it interprets everything in its own way.
  • Children have two worlds, the one they have been given and the one they can dream about.
  • Adults often think that self-confidence is something a child learns, but little kids are by their nature always invincible, it's self-doubt that needs to be taught.
  • The world is extremely inventive, it has plenty of ways of breaking children.

Children Quotes from A Little Life book by Hanya Yanagihara

  • The point of a child is not what you hope he will accomplish in your name but the pleasure that he will bring you, whatever form it comes in, even if it is a form that is barely recognizable as pleasure at all - and, more important, the pleasure you will be privileged to bring him.
  • Children are a kind of cartography, and all one has to do is obey the map they present to you on the day they are born.

Other Children Quotes

  • Children are amazingly flexible creatures. They can move through the centuries, adjust to new living conditions, transport themselves into new realities with surprising ease. - Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
  • Every infant - whether a boy or a girl - is like a bubble floating on water or a wisp of cloud in the sky, easily swept away. - Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
  • Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • There are two things in life you never regret - a baby and a swim. - The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
  • Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them. - The World According to Garp by John Irving