Through our children we… have a kind of spiritual reprieve.
Children Quotes
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
What feeling is so nice as a child’s hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
A child’s hand in yours – what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
No day can be so sacred but that the laugh of a little child will make it holier still.
We are drowning our youngsters in violence, cynicism and sadism piped into the living room and even the nursery. The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn’t slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.
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. […]
