‘Tis unto children most respect is due.
Children Quotes
By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we have ceased to question.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Let nothing which is disgraceful to be spoken of, or to be seen, approach this place where a child is.
There is a world of difference between being child-like and childish. I hope to retain some of my child-like qualities forever.
My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to conceive.
When children become unimportant to society, that society has forfeited its future.
Johnson said always, ‘that the world was well constructed, but that the particular people disgraced the elegance and beauty of the general fabric.’ In the same manner I was relating once to him, how Dr. Collier observed, that the love one bore to children was from the anticipation one’s mind made while one contemplated them: […]
Childhood is a promise that is never kept.
