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Gregory Maguire Quotes about Children

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Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.

Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.

Gregory Maguire
Children, Wicked, Green

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

Gregory Maguire
Children, Soul, Liberty
Gregory Maguire (2009). “Lost: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

Gregory Maguire
Children, Silly, Animal

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

Gregory Maguire
Children, Humility, World
Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.7, Harper Collins

Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

Gregory Maguire
Children, Adults, Restraint
Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.56, Harper Collins

The story of Mirror Mirror is in many ways a story about evolution. Its about the evolution of a child into an adult. Its about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. Its about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.

Gregory Maguire
Children, Dwarves, Mirrors

Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.

Gregory Maguire
Children, Parent, Generations

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

Gregory Maguire
Children, Growing Up, Men

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