Khaled Hosseini Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Book, Color

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.15, A&C Black

• When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Husband, Father

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.92, A&C Black

• When I was in Afghanistan in 2007, I went from village to village where refugees had returned, and they were living out in the open under tents, sometimes completely exposed to the environment. And they were homeless, which meant they would lose children in the winter to the cold and in the summers in the extreme heat. It's extremely humiliating for them to be homeless, culturally it's very shameful.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Summer, Children, Winter

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Pete Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 2009.

• That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Fall, Terror

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.155, A&C Black

• No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Country, Hurt, Growing Up

  Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

• Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Country, Children

• There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Childhood, Littles

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.145, A&C Black

• But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. ‘What good is it, Laila jo?’ And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on. For her own sake, for Tariq’s, for her children’s. And for Mariam, who still visits Laila in her dreams, who is never more than a breath or two below her consciousness. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Wise, Dream, Children

• I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lip. I ran

  Khaled Hosseini

  Running, Children, Men

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.324, A&C Black

• Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love, Children, Sleep

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.165, A&C Black

• People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, People, Given

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.77, Bloomsbury Publishing

• We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Morning, Children, Sound

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.21, A&C Black

• It's literally just been formed. It's a 501 C3, non-profit charitable foundation called, unsurprisingly, the Khalled Hosseini Foundation. The aim is to help refugees and aim vulnerable women and children.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Foundation, Helping

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 2009.

• We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Giving, Empowering

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

• I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So the focus has been on women, children, and homeless refugees, most of whom are in fact women and children.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Focus, Foundation

  "GeekDad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of The Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com. September 30, 2011.

• My books are about ordinary people, like you, me, people on the street, people who really have an expectation of reasonable happiness in life, want their life to have a sense of security and predictability, who want to belong to something bigger than them, who want love and affection in their life, who want a good future for the children.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Book, People

  "Novelist Khaled Hosseini". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 21, 2013.

• We [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] support and fund projects that bring jobs, healthcare, and education to women and children. In addition, we award scholarships to women pursuing higher education in Afghanistan.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Jobs, Children, Awards

  "Geekdad Interview: Khaled Hosseini, Author of the Kite Runner". Interview with Tony Sims, www.wired.com.

• Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride price and child marriage, and to enforce women to be involved in school. Every time, the reaction from the traditionalists was one of contempt and scorn and at times outright rebellion. I think the emancipation of women in Afghanistan has to come from inside, through Afghans themselves, gradually, over time.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, School, Thinking

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son" by Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2009.

• In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Play, Parent

  "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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