Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.
Children Quotes
Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in moods, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement mixer long after one’s interest in the topic has waned.
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that l could bring to it.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. . . There was only one gift he held back – length of life.
In all our efforts to provide “advantages” we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.
A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
All who doubted or denied would be lost. To live a moral and honest life – to keep your contracts, to take care of wife and child – to make a happy home – to be a good citizen, a patriot, a just and thoughtful man, was simply a respectable way of going to hell. […]
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger because we give them no choice about it.
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
