Children S Lit Quotes

#1. I struggle to listen, to sit, and to study-
I would rather play and create art with my brushes and putty.

I wish I could focus on things that I know-
Like cars, Mars, and playing with dough.

Brenda Lochinger

#2. I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.

Atticus Shaffer

#3. Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone's connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing's broken?

Trenton Lee Stewart

#4. Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#5. Olivia reminds me of a bird sometimes, how her feathers get all ruffled when she's mad. and when she's fragile like this, she's a little lost bird looking for its nest.

R.J. Palacio

#6. A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Francois Rabelais

#7. I had been too tired and too sick with melancholy to ride my bike, knowing full well that riding my bike was a cure.

Kelton Wright

#8. Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food.

Emlyn Chand

#9. Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?"
Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.

J.M. Barrie

#10. You are not too small. No one is ever too small to offer help.

Emlyn Chand

#11. Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself.

David

#12. Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

Miguel Syjuco

#13. What about you, pretty boy? You gonna stand there and let your girlfriend do all the work?"

"What?" Watch my seriously hot woman put you on your fat ass and look sexy while she's doing it? Oh, yeah, I'm definitely game for that.

Nalini Singh

#14. Sometimes these flashes of normality come at me from the side, like ambushes. The ordinary, the usual, a reminder, like a kick.

Margaret Atwood

#15. A woman has her needs. What good is a mother to her poor children if she's suffering from low self-esteem and sexual frustration? If you don't get laid soon, you will literally close up. More importantly, you will shrivel. And you will become bitter.

Helen Fielding

#16. Although I wasn't there to bear witness, I imagine Lot's wife scanned the masses for her children. Perhaps she sought out the curves of their mouths and the shapes of their faces, trying to memorize her children, grown now. She looked back as I and any strong, loving mother would have done.

Brenda Sutton Rose

#17. There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.

Robert Breault

#18. As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.

Denzel Whitaker

#19. If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

Laura Miller

#20. We create our work for children not because they're "cute," but because they're human beings, deserving of respect.

Mo Willems

#21. The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.

Joe Manchin

#22. Wait," Honey said to herself, as she realized something amazing. "I'm already an excellent flyer. Maybe I can fight crime too.

Emlyn Chand

#23. when life hands you lemons you should take them . . . and whack life by the butt with those damn lemon until its bruised and then go munch on some chocolate

Mei

#24. A year ago he had been in America. Two years ago he had been straight. Tonight he was underground, with the remains of the bogey man, lit by the torches of the children who had killed him.

Caleb Crain