Midnight Children

Famous quotes containing the words midnight and/or children:

    at mothy curfew-tide,
    And at midnight when the noon-heat breathes it back from walls and leads,
    They’ve a way of whispering to me—fellow-wight who yet
    abide—
    Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    If Americans could understand what a painful, searing experience it is when Negro children first begin to realize that the mere color of their skin is to be the source of a lifelong discrimination, it might do more to end our cruelty toward the Negro than all the preaching on justice and equality.
    Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)