P. D. James Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Every island to a child is a treasure island.

  P. D. James

  Children, Islands, Treasure

  P. D. James (2008). “The Lighthouse”, p.82, Faber & Faber

• What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

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  Children, Parenting, Happy Kid

  P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.11, Faber & Faber

• If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

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  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.23, Vintage

• The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret.

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  Daughter, Hurt, Children

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.101, Vintage

• Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.

  P. D. James

  Children, Brave, Secret

  P. D. James (2007). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.20, Vintage

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