For some reason, we know not what, his childhood was sharply severed. It lodged in him whole and entire. He could not disperse it.

Secret Garden, The by Frances Hodgson Burnett

No, I didn't have time to take photos, I had young children, all that...

The outstanding work that he has done over the past 35 years on child labour and trafficking has helped change mindsets and influence communities to protect children’s rights and create a more just society.

[M]ost of us, male and female, are as children compared with this one glorious human being.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.

A toast to the dead, for children with cancer and AIDS; a cure exists, and you probably could have been saved.

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —

Because I grew up playing for Roma and I want to die playing for Roma, because I have always been a Roma's fan!

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

Hannetjie is just a child and stupidly truthful.

Child hunger is a moral challenge to us all. As a citizen, I find that hunger is not just a moral issue but it is also a political issue in the larger sense of the word[https://motivation.africa/10-quotable-quotes-of-sahle-work-zewde.html]

As a journalist, I consider it a sacred duty to present all the brave warriors of 75 one by one to the nation. After the nation's sun child Major Dalim, I am going to present another patriotic and fearless brave warrior to the nation, InshaAllah.

The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.

In Banaras, according to Ibn-ul-Asir, Shihabuddin’s slaughter of the Hindus was immense, “none was spared except women and children,” who were destined to be made slaves.

There are hundreds of families in the UK who earn over £60,000 in benefits without lifting a finger because they have so many kids (and for the rest of us that’s a wage of over £90,000 before tax!).