If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
Children Quotes
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
If parents would only realize how they bore their children!
A child should always say what’s true, And speak when he is spoken to; And behave mannerly at table, At least as far as he is able.
Parents who rob their children of limits hurt the development of something deep within their child: their capacity to care, to understand, and to show concern. From adversity, from limits, from “no’s,” and from expectations, children develop greater depths of empathy, compassion, and understanding. Without these experiences, they develop a one-dimensional view of the world […]
There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.
Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
