Quotes About Children

As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. —New York, Sept. 26, 2007

Everyone is afraid. We help young children overcome their fears with fairy tales, and then as soon as they get to school they are scared of showing their parents a school report with bad marks in it. Fear of water. Fear of fire. Fear of animals, fear of the dark. Fear, at the age of fifteen or sixteen, of making wrong choices and ruining your life.

I just told them that dear Uncle Silas has gone away on a long journey, she said. They're such mites, you know, and I've never let them hear about Death, or have ugly toys or stories about ogres and things. I mean, I do frightfully believe in keeping their little minds free from everything but happy, beautiful things, don't you?

Naked children ran about playing leapfrog or football, or towing little toys about on string.

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the children could tell, because they could hear the hum of

Gertrude Chandler Warner

All the children rushed over to Aunt Jane. All but Mike. He just stood and looked at the paper in her hand.

where they had come from. The baker's wife saw them first, as they stood looking in at the window of her store. The little boy was looking at the cakes, the big boy was looking at the loaves of bread, and the two girls were looking at the cookies.

Forgetting Henry's headlamp, the Boxcar

The children ate everything on the table. They ate hamburgers and rolls and tomatoes and beans and corn, and they drank many glasses of milk.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Gertrude Chandler Warner

From outside the open window came a gust of cool air. The children snuggled deeper under the fluffy blankets that Aunt Judy had set out for them, and one by one they drifted asleep.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

knew something that the children did not, but he went right to work and

Gertrude Chandler Warner

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Gertrude Chandler Warner

Gertrude Chandler Warner

Gertrude Chandler Warner

The four children jumped up so quickly that Mr. Alden threw back his head and laughed.

hello to her?" "Oh, yes," the children said. The Game Spot was located right in the middle of the mall, between Lake's Jewelry Store and an empty storefront. There was a drugstore at one end of the mall, a coffee shop at the other, and

GERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER