“Children understand.”

“Children should show great understanding towards grown-ups”

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”

“That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.”

“Children,” I say plainly, “watch out for the baobabs!”

“As for the military advantage of such a bombardment, I simply cannot grasp it. I have seen housewives disemboweled, children mutilated; I have seen the old itinerant market crone sponge from her treasure the brains with which they were spattered. I have seen a janitor's wife come out of her cellar and douse the sullied pavement with a bucket of water, and I am still unable to understand what part these humble slaughterhouse accidents play in warfare.”

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”