What the children hear at home soon flies abroad.
Children Quotes
Sometimes they make me angry and then I become real sad. Cause they don’t always let me speak, My folks, my Mom and Dad. I really know when I have done, A thing that’s not too good. And that makes me feel awful, And I’d stop it if I could. Sometimes I don’t watch what […]
We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children.
Many children, and little bread, is a painful pleasure.
When Mom and Dad have visitors they like to show me off. They ask me to recite a poem and you know that I’ll cough. When they ask me to sing a song, you can make a bet, That I’ll begin again and in between will say, “Aw, I forget.” I know that they are […]
A man among children will be long a child, a child among men will be soon a man.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. (Isaiah 11:6-7)
I am poppa to no male nor no female child dat no court could prove udderwise, and certainly, nothin’ likes a skinnypated, sissipated runt like you. Children! Children! Kids! Eugggh! Children! Give ’em everything they want, and waddaya gets in return? Nuthin. Nuthin! Nuthin! but heartache, heartache, sadness, and misery, and a bad time once […]
Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
