Top 31 Good Children's Literature Quotes
#1. Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#2. Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.
Erica Jong
#3. I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.
Bill Walton
#4. And someone who is perpetually accidentally hot-gluing herself to the carpet, and who is sort of mentally unstable, but in an "At-least-I-still-remember-how-pants-work" kind of way (cough ... that'd be me).
Jenny Lawson
#5. Only sweet people with good virtues can go to fairyland. Those who treat others meanly and without respect can never go there.
Janaki Sooriyarachchi
#6. Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.
Dr. Seuss
#7. The only thing more compelling than love is power.
Claudia Gray
#8. God has always worked through the small, the insignificant, the powerless - it seems to be sewn into the very fabric of the universe.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#9. To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours.
Fernando Pessoa
#10. No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
Bernard De Mandeville
#11. I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.
R.L. Stine
#12. I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.
Amber Benson
#13. If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.
Madeleine L'Engle
#14. Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standard than other literature for the same reason that we take extra care with children's food.
Patrick Rothfuss
#15. Without knowing how to calculate the odds on such matters, it seems improbably to me that God would have whispered the meaning of my life into the ear of some guru or authority.
Sam Keen
#16. Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.
Jeff Goldblum
#17. I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#19. A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book.
K. Lamb
#20. I love to read about anger. A "feel bad" book always makes me feel good. And no other novel in the history of literature is more depressing than Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children.
John Waters
#21. I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
Barbara Bush
#22. None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are.
Ethel Turner
#23. Thus, until we have truly become a democracy, every American, white as much as black, red, or yellow, lives not in his skin but on it. If one person is called "colored", let all be colored.
Russell Banks
#24. I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.
Sarah McLachlan
#26. Big Ma didn't need to say any more and she didn't. T.J. was far from her favorite person and it was quite obvious that Stacey and I owed our good fortune entirely to T.J.'s obnoxious personality.
Mildred D. Taylor
#27. Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.
Ezra Taft Benson
#28. When we've decided to tell the truth in a story, we should tell good, strong versions of it, proper versions that kids can do something with.
Celine Kiernan
#29. It pains me to admit this, but Roger was a good sight less stupid than most children.
Heidi Schulz
#30. To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.
Polykarp Kusch
