Children Quotes

If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.

The only bird that gives the poor a real tumble is the stork.

Never raise your hand to your children Ð it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Most children are curious, they want to know; but their eager inquiry is dulled. Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

One beautiful December day. I went up on the roof-terrace with the children. I was sitting near a chimney, and said to a little five-year-old boy who sat beside me, “Draw me a picture of this chimney.” He got down obediently and made a rough sketch of the chimney. The child looked at me, smiled, […]

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

The child’s true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that […]

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

The child becoming incarnate is a spiritual embryo, which needs its own special environment. Just as a physical embryo needs its mother’s womb in which to grow, so the spiritual embryo needs to be protected by an eternal environment that is warm with love and rich in nourishment, where everything is disposed to welcome, and […]