Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we’d had.
Children Quotes
The child-soul is an ever-bubbling fountain in the world of humanity.
When our kids are young, many of us rush out to buy a cute little baby book to record the meaningful events of our young child’s life. . . But I’ve often thought there should be a second book, one with room to record the moral milestones of our child’s lives. There might be space […]
(Towards the end of a long buggy trip in the country now under a full moon) the little man behaved himself still like an old traveler; but sometimes he looked round at me from the front seat (where he sat between Herman Melville and Evert Duyckinck) and smiled at me with a peculiar expression, and […]
The scars left from the child’s defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.
What society thinks and feels about its children is an index of its attitudes about a great number of things: knowledge, power, sex, the future.
Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery.
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
There’s not a man in America who at one time or another hasn’t had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass.
Children are all foreigners.
