Carson McCullers Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

  Carson McCullers

  Children, Heart, Twists

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.

  Carson McCullers

  Hurt, Children, Heart

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

  Carson McCullers

  Country, Children, Men

  Carson McCullers (2004). “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.

  Carson McCullers

  Children, Self, Littles

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