Logo
Quote by Nina Bawden
I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people under

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right. – Nina Bawden

Other quotes by Nina Bawden

People who dont read seem to me mysterious. I dont know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education. – Nina Bawden

Category:
Education
Author
Nina Bawden
Read Quote

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth. – Nina Bawden

Category:
legal
Author
Nina Bawden
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
strength
category

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what Ive learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts. – John Forsythe

Category:
strength

We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work. – John Dos Passos

Category:
strength

Its a wonderful side effect of what were doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore. – Davey Havok

Category:
strength

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. – Phil Jackson

Category:
strength

Random Quotes

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Fear

I feel like women are asked their age more than men. – Kristen Wiig

Category:
Age

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters – Im from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered! – Shirley Manson

Category:
Family

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes. – Chris Evans

Category:
Birthday