Children's Lit Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. She was secretly amused by the man who managed to give the impression of moving in all directions while standing still.

Peggy Darty

#4. My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

Angela Kinsey

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

Emlyn Chand

#6. No man ever got lost on a straight road.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

Moliere

#8. No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but 'tis enough.

William Shakespeare

#9. 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

#10. It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Mo Willems

#12. 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

#13. Hitler said KdF brought opportunity for everyone, all were equal. But how could all be equal if some were favored?

Ruta Sepetys

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. But this was not a time for begging favors from the moon. Not now. She could not rush and neither could she be delayed. Some things were simply too important.

Patrick Rothfuss

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

Emlyn Chand

#19. The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

Gerald Chertavian

#20. 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

#21. But I learned something from it. From losing him. Even though I found my soulmate, that doesn't mean that I'm incapable of falling in love with someone else. It just means they're going to have to try harder for my attention.

Hollow Ryan

#22. The divorce is from my old putter. I think it's final - at least we're due for a long separation. I've suffered with that old putter for two years now. It got so rude I couldn't stand it.

Shelley Hamlin

#23. You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

Claire Danes

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

Emlyn Chand

#25. Now death is with us in such abundance and hovers over us in so massive a form that we don't have time to invent a mythology, nor is our creativity directed toward same. Now it's to prevent death.

Rod Serling

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

Francois Rabelais

#27. 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

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

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#29. 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

#30. There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

Margaret Atwood