Little people (i.e., babies) should be encouraged always to tell whatever they hear particularly striking to some brother, sister, or servant, immediately before the impression is erased by the intervention of newer occurrences.
Children Quotes
I remember a lot of talk and a lot of laughter. I must have talked a great deal because Martha used to say again and again, “You remember you said this, you said that… ” She remembered everything I said, and all my life I’ve had the feeling that what I think and what I […]
No one keeps a secret so well as a child.
I would rather have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his […]
In our time one has to ask children and the ignorant for news of the future. The saying in the Talmud that after the destruction of the temple prophesy we have taken from the wise and given to children and fools reflect the disarray and perplexity of a time of trouble. When things become unhinged, […]
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
One thing vampire children are taught is, never run with a wooden stake.
I know of no pleasure that quite matches that of seeing your youngster proudly flaunting something you have made.
