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She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to

She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother," everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child".

Terry Pratchett
Mother, Children, Cat
"Carpe Jugulum". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1998.

And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Hero, Daddy
"Fictional character: Susan". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Government, People
Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!

Terry Pratchett
Children, Men, Bvb
"Fictional character: Admiral Sir Edward Pellew". "Horatio Hornblower 3", www.imdb.com. 2003.

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

Terry Pratchett
Children, People, Limitless
Terry Pratchett (2011). “Snuff: (Discworld Novel 39)”, p.33, Random House

If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.

Terry Pratchett
Girl, Children, People

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Terrible, Thirteen

So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Healthy, Mind

Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Quiet, Eyesight
Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wee Free Men: (Discworld Novel 30)”, p.80, Random House

You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, traveling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abscesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say "yes."

Terry Pratchett
Mother, Children, Home
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.

Terry Pratchett
Country, Children, Stupid

There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the experience of someone under the age of say ten or eleven to encompass. But that field is smaller than you might think. They can easily cope with death and things like that; they know about it and it's a subject that often preoccupies them.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Book, Thinking
Source: bobneilson.org

Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!

Terry Pratchett
Children, Hello, Babysitter
"Fictional character: Susan". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Nice, Play
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.37, Random House

I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Book, Thinking
Interview conducted in advance of Terry Pratchett's National Book Festival appearance in Washington, D.C., www.epicreads.com. September 29, 2007.

Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Pull Ups, Manners

Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Real, Drug

As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to chops and sausages. Quite why they should dress up for children’s wallpaper as well was a mystery. Hello, little folk, this is what you’re going to eat… He felt that if only he could find the key to it, he’d know a lot more about human beings.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Keys, Pigs
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.411, Random House

Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart

Terry Pratchett
Children, Home, Heart

The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armour. You didn't get the chance every day to see someone baked alive in their own armour. It would be something for the children to remember.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Dragons, People

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

Terry Pratchett
Letting Go, Children, People
"Terry Pratchett in quotes: 15 of the best". www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2015.

Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.

Terry Pratchett
Baby, Children, Thinking

I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. "What does it contain, then?" ME.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Regret, Doe
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Sourcery: (Discworld Novel 5)”, p.15, Random House

The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Book, Long

There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids read an age group up anyway.

Terry Pratchett
Children, Book, Kids
Source: bobneilson.org

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