Penelope Lively Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• But who knows their own child? You know bits - certain predictable reactions, a handful of familiar qualities. The rest is impenetrable. And quite right too. You give birth to them. You do not design them.

  Penelope Lively

  Children, Giving, Design

• Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders, and fought by boys.

  Penelope Lively

  Children, War, Boys

  1987 Moon Tiger, ch.8.

• I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.

  Penelope Lively

  Children, Thinking, Might

  "'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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