I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.
Children Quotes
Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.
Give a little to love a child, and you get a great deal back.
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.
Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.
We can’t all leave a prestigious background or lots of money to visit our children, but we can leave them a legacy of love.
I can remember, at the age of five, being told that childhood was the happiest period of life (a blank lie, in those days). I wept inconsolably, wished I were dead, and wondered how I should endure the boredom of the years to come.
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it better.
In the child, happiness dances; in the man, at most it smiles or weeps. When a man dances, he can only express the beauty of his art, not himself or his feelings.
There should be no enforced respect for grown-ups. We cannot prevent children from thinking us fools by merely forbidding them to utter their thoughts; in fact, they are more likely to think ill of us if they dare not say so.
