Eudora Welty Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

  Eudora Welty

  Children, Long, Waiting

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.14, Harvard University Press

• When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.

  Eudora Welty

  Mother, Children, Ice Cream

  Eudora Welty, Pearl Amelia McHaney (2009). “Occasions: Selected Writings”, p.157, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.

  Eudora Welty

  Children, Artist, Animal

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