logo

Quotes About Children

I is THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT! I is the BFG. What is your name?' 'My name is Sophie,' Sophie said, hardly
~ Roald Dahl
I is a dreamblowing giant," the BFG said. "(...) I is scuddling away to other places to blow dreams into the bedrooms of sleeping children. Nice dreams. Lovely golden dreams. Dreams that is giving the dreamers a happy time.
~ Roald Dahl
Bütün büyükler çocuklara dev gibi görünürler.
~ Roald Dahl
the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.
~ Roald Dahl
Dear children far across the sea, How nice of you to write to me. I love to hear the things you say When you are miles and miles away. All children, and I think I'm right, Are nicer when they're out of sight!
~ Roald Dahl
Most people—and especially small children—are often quite scared of being out of doors alone in the moonlight. Everything is so deadly quiet, and the shadows are so long and black, and they keep turning into strange shapes that seem to move as you look at them, and the slightest little snap of a twig makes you jump.
~ Roald Dahl
I is THE BIG FRIENDLY GIANT! I is the BFG. What is your name?
~ Roald Dahl
Not really," she answered. "Although I have heard it said that over there the witches are able to make the grown-ups eat their own children." "Never!
~ Roald Dahl
The Oompa-Loompas
~ Roald Dahl
She had heard that parents like this existed all over the place and that their children turned out to be delinquents and drop-outs, but it was still a shock to meet a pair of them in the flesh.
~ Roald Dahl
The President said a very rude word into the microphone and ten million children across the nation began repeating it gleefully and got smacked by their parents.
~ Roald Dahl
The feet," she said. "Witches never have toes.
~ Roald Dahl
Picture books
~ Roald Dahl
A witch, you must understand, does not knock children on the head or stick knives into them or shoot at them with a pistol. People who do those things get caught by the police. A witch never gets caught. Don't forget that she has magic in her fingers and devilry dancing in her blood. She can make stones jump about like frogs and she can make tongues of flame go flickering across the surface of the water. These magic powers are very frightening.
~ Roald Dahl
hippodumplings
~ Roald Dahl
Now for me, writing the text of a short first-rate illustrated book for young children is the most difficult task of all, more difficult than a novel, short story, or full length children's book. If you find this hard to believe, I suggest you give it a try yourself.
~ Roald Dahl
Çocuklara okur olmay? ve kitaplardan korkmak yerine, onlarla iliÅŸki kurmay? öÄŸretmek benim için bir tutku. Kitaplar göz korkutmamal?; kitaplar eÄŸlenceli, heyecanl? ve muhteÅŸem olmal?. Bir okur olmay? öÄŸrenmek müthiÅŸ bir kazançt?r.
~ Roald Dahl
Qué libros más bellos leían! ¡Los niños que antaño leían!
~ Roald Dahl
GIANTS: THE FLESHLUMPEATER THE BONECRUNCHER THE MANHUGGER THE CHILDCHEWER THE MEATDRIPPER THE GIZZARDGULPER THE MAID MASHER THE BLOODBOTTLER THE BUTCHER BOY
~ Roald Dahl
One of the only violent images Jesus ever uses is when he speaks about those who cause children to stumble. With a shockingly hyperbolic flourish, he declares that the only fitting punishment is to tie a giant stone around their neck and throw them into the sea (Matt. 18). Death by drowning—Jesus's idea of punishment for those who lead children astray. A haunting warning if there ever was one about the spongelike nature of a child's psyche.
~ Rob Bell
Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek.
~ Rob Brezsny
Despite having two young children to mother, [Sylvia Plath] seemed inept at the basics of life, always needing help.
~ Rob Jovanovic
The farm work they hated was the only work they knew. Often, even the basic skills of plumbing or electricity or mechanical work were mysteries to them – as were the job discipline and the subtleties that children raised in the industrial world learn without thinking about them; starting work on time, working set hours, taking orders from strangers instead of their father, playing office politics.
~ Robert A. Caro
Listen, son. Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range then we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better — and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.
~ Robert A. Heinlein